Our Achievements

In our first twelve years NEBT…

Produced 9 West End Shows to audience and critical acclaim.

Performed to live audiences at 30 venues across the UK -ranging from festivals to hospitals and the Royal Opera House.

Commissioned and produced over 34 original new ballets, fulfilling our company’s mission to produce new and original work.

Furthered the careers of 120 dancers.

Received £3.2 million pounds in grants and donations to create world-class ballet performances, paid employment for artists, and outreach work for young people.

Showcased the talents of 25 emerging choreographers, 86 musicians/singers and 31 artists & designers.

Produced a film of the ballet ‘Remembrance’ shown at the Regent Street Cinema as part of the WWI centenary commemorations in 2018.

Delivered 53 outreach activities for around 2,000 young people.

Reached over 700,000 people online, and a combined online, print and radio reach of almost 10 million.

Formed cultural partnerships with the Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Opera House Thurrock Trailblazer, Thameside Theatre and Cheltenham Music Festival.

2019 Season Rehearsals. Photo Deborah Jaffe
2019 Season Rehearsals. Photo Deborah Jaffe

NEBT Alumni Accomplishments

Dancers who earned full-time positions after dancing with NEBT

Sophie Allnatt The Royal Ballet

Joshua Barwick Rambert

Giuditta Banchetti Malandain Ballet Biarritz, France

Lorenzo Bernardi Le Palais d’Hiver St Petersburg Ballet, France

Katya Bourvis Dortmund Ballet, Germany

Anita Bradshaw Dortmund Ballet, Germany

Eugenia Brezzi Compañía Nacional De Danza, Madrid

Jessica Clyde English National Ballet

Camilla Chiesi Tivoli Ballet

Georgina Connolly Norwegian National Ballet

Ivan Delgado del Rio Ballet Nurnberg, Germany

Lorenzo Epifani Tivoli Ballet

Isabella Gasparini The Royal Ballet

Christina Gibbs Anastasia the Musical, Stuttgart

Madeline Green Vienna Festival Ballet

Benjamin Holloway Company Wayne McGregor, London

Nathan Hunt English National Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet

Chloe Lopes Gomes Bejart Ballet Lausanne, Switzerland

Andrea Marcelletti Tivoli Ballet

Maria Martins The Moravian-Silesian Ballet Theatre

Sonoya Mizuno Scottish Ballet

Tim Morgenstern The Finnish National Ballet 

Alexander Nuttall Estonia National Ballet, Tivoli Ballet

Paul Oliver Czech National Ballet

Daniel Pratt Sarasota Ballet, USA

Riccardo Rodighiero The Australian Ballet

Luca Rapis One Thousand Dance, Italy

Pablo Luque Romero Royal New Zealand Ballet

Dylan Springer Phoenix Dance Theatre

Isabella Swietlicki Royal New Zealand Ballet

Seamus Wilkinson Moravske Divadlo, Czech Republic

NEBT Choreographers who went on to achieve commissions

Daniela Cardim – Dutch National Ballet Junior Company, Birmingham Royal Ballet

Jenna Lee – London Children’s Ballet, Northern Ballet

Ernst Meisner – Dutch National Ballet

Erico Montes – London Children’s Ballet

Kristen McNally – Ballet Boyz, Scottish Ballet, The Royal Ballet

Andrew McNicol – Royal Ballet of Flanders

Lucas Rapis – Expo Milan 2015, Ammutinamenti Festival di Danza Urbana e d’Autore

Silas Stubbs – Ballet Vanemuine, Estonia

George Williamson – English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet

Valentino Zucchetti – Royal Ballet School