Northern Ballet announces promotions, leavers and joiners for 2022/23 season

Northern Ballet have announced six promotions within their Company of dancers as well as four new additions for their 2023/24 season.

Joseph Taylor will be promoted to Premier Dancer, Jonathan Hanks, Saeka Shirai and Dominique Larose to Leading Soloist and Alessandra Bramante and Harris Beattie to Coryphée.

Aaron Kok will join the Company as a Dancer, Mayuko Iwanaga and Yu Wakizuka as Apprentices and Itsuki Amemiya also as an Apprentice until December 2023.

This season the Company will say fond farewell to Mackenzie Jacob who joins Scottish Ballet, Katharine Lee who joins San Francisco Ballet, Sean Bates who joins Zurich Ballet and Wesley Branch. Gavin McCaig has retired from performing and joins the Young Dancers Academy in London as Director of Business Operations.

Northern Ballet’s autumn season will commence in September with Generations: Three Short Ballets in Leeds and London followed by a national tour of Beauty & the Beast and The Nutcracker in Leeds. For more information visit northernballet.com/whats-on