The annual promotions, leavers & Joiners at The Royal Ballet are as follows :

Dancer Promotions

Isabel Lubach, Viola Pantuso, Julia Roscoe, Amelia Townsend and Harris Bell are promoted to Soloist.

Olivia Findlay, Ella Newton Severgnini, Hanna Park, Maddison Pritchard, Ginevra Zambon, Denilson Almeida and Caspar Lench are promoted to First Artist.

From the 24/25 Season intake of The Aud Jebsen Young Dancer programme, Francesca Lloyd, Katie Robertson, Rebecca Myles Stewart, Ravi Cannonier-Watson, Emile Gooding and Alejandro Muñoz now become Artists.

Joiners from The Royal Ballet School

For the 2025/26 Season, seven graduates from The Royal Ballet School join the Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme: Aurora Chinchilla, LilySophia Dashwood, Shani Moran-Simmonds, Yuki Nagayasu, Amos Child, Tristan-lan Massa and Joe Parkinson.

Leavers

Following a 15-year career with The Royal Ballet, First Soloist Itziar Mendizabal leaves the Company to take up a new teaching position at The Royal Ballet School.

After 21 years, Soloist Romany Pajdak leaves the Company at the end of the Season.

Soloist Benjamin Ella will retire as a performer after 16 years in December 2025.

First Artist Katharina Nikelski takes a leave of absence in the 2025/26 Season to pursue an MBA.

The 2024/25 Prix de Lausanne dancer, Airi Kobayashi, leaves at the end of the Season to join Birmingham Royal Ballet.