Artistic Director and Lead Principal Dancer of English National Ballet
“Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, has been awarded a CBE for her services to ballet in the Queen’s 2016 New Year’s Honours”.
Thesis Title: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE ELITE DANCER – VOCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROFESSIONAL DANCER.
REY JUAN CARLOS UNIVERSITY: FACULTY OF LEGAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES – ALICIA ALONSO DANCE INSTITUTE – DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND ARTS, LEGAL AND HUMANISTIC SCIENCES HISTORY AND MODERN LANGUAGES.
Thesis Director: Dr. Amador Cernuda Lago.
Tamara Rojo, Lead Principle and Artistic Director, English National Ballet speech at the opening of SHOES: PLEASURE AND PAIN.
3 June 2015 – 31 January 2016. This exhibition will look at the extremes of footwear from around the globe, presenting around 200 pairs of shoes ranging from a sandal decorated in pure gold leaf originating from ancient Egypt to the most elaborate designs by contemporary makers.
The Pointe Shoe Anti-Bunion Stretcher by Tamara Rojo is a device for widening the specific area of the enveloping part of the pointed ballet shoes, to facilitate a more comfortable use of said shoes to the ballerinas who suffer from the lateral deformation of the first segment of the phalangeal metatarsal joint forming a protrusion called hallux abductus valgus (hallux valgus) known as bunion. By stretching the satin canvas, at the wings area of the pointed shoes, the fitting of the ballerina’s foot suffering bunion into the pointe shoe is improved, consequently, it reduces the oppression in the bunion, relieve discomfort and helps her to dance more comfortably.
Thursday 20 September
Tamara Rojo, James Streeter, Fabian Reimair
Friday 21 September
Tamara Rojo, James Streeter, Fabian Reimair
Saturday 22 September
Tamara Rojo, James Streeter, Fabian Reimair
Monday 24 September (The Royal British Legion Thank You performance)
Tamara Rojo, James Streeter, Fabian Reimair
Tuesday 25 September
Tamara Rojo, James Streeter, Fabian Reimair
Thursday 27 September
Tamara Rojo, James Streeter, Fabian Reimair
Saturday 29 September (mat)
Tamara Rojo, James Streeter, Fabian Reimair
English National Ballet wins dance South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2015 for Lest We Forget program.
“This is a great honour and I’m deeply humbled by it. It is important to say that it is not an award for one individual, or even one team. It has been won by the whole company and I would like to pay tribute to and thank :~
CHOREOGRAPHERS: Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant, Liam Scarlett, George Williamson.
All our COLLABORATORS: Designers, particularly Bob Ringwood, Lighting designers, Composers and Costume makers.
The ORCHESTRA and MUSIC DIRECTOR, GAVIN SUTHERLAND, who is always up for everything and loves dance even more than me.
Our TECHNICAL TEAM, David Baxter, David Richardson and specially our technical director Al Riches, who always tells me all is ok even when I am seeing with my own eyes that it is falling apart, but somehow it is always alright in the end!
My DANCERS AND ARTISTIC TEAM, who embrace every challenge and deliver above all expectations.
TO ALL THE UNSUNG HEROES BEHIND THE SCENES, my Executive Director Caroline Thomson, producers, accountants, HR, development, marketing, costumes, hair and make-up outreach and education … You keep things going so we can all dream.
JUSTIN BICKLE, our Chairman, you are the embodiment of the definition of a philanthropist; A person that seeks the welfare of human kind. He who loves the arts. We could not be here without you and your amazing board.
And to the audience who follow us. We will be performing Lest We Forget from September, in London and around the country, so don’t miss it!
Thank you”.
“Good Swan, Bad Swan: Dancing Swan Lake”
Filmed by BBC
Inspired by the centenary of the Great War
Award-winning British choreographers Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett are creating works honouring the 100th anniversary of the Great War. George Williamson’s Firebird completes the debut programme to be presented by English National Ballet at London Barbican.This is the first time that Khan and Maliphant have collaborated with a classical ballet company on new commissions fusing classical traditions with modern dance. Lest We Forget promises to be a landmark event in British ballet appealing to contemporary dance audiences as well as devotees of the form.2 hours 50 mins/including two intervals.
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Zoë Anderson: ““On opening night, Tamara Rojo’s Swan Queen had the charisma to fill the whole space”
Lyndsey Winship, London Evenig Standard:“There’s pause-button control in her early white swan scenes as her demure Odette deliciously stretches out her phrases with elegant assuredness. Later you can feel the adrenaline rising in the room as she spins her way through the 32 fouettés, ending with a sweet smirk that seems to say: “Oh that? Easy.”
Luke Jennings, The Observer, Sunday 16 June 2013:
The Telegraph, Louise Levene“Critics spoiled rotten by a life of perfect sightlines in the front stalls found the encircling audience distracting and carped that the sheer size of the Albert Hall made it impossible for the artists to convey emotion. Anyone who has watched their idols from the back row of Covent Garden’s amphitheatre through a forest of craning heads will know that this is nonsense”.
