2024 Company
Livi Boyd
Livi trained at Central School of Ballet.
Before NEBT, Livi was part of Ballet Central and then danced with Opera Comica in Bucharest. Since her first season with NEBT in 2022 she has danced with Ukrainian Classical Ballet on their European tour as well as dancing with Kyiv City Ballet and NEBT 2023.
Her repertoire includes: Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Alice in Wonderland, Coppelia, Les Sylphides, La Bayadere and Diana and Actaeon.
Ana Freire
Genevieve Heron
Genevieve trained at The Royal Ballet School – White Lodge and Elmhurst School for Dance.
Since then she has danced with the Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet and the Royal Swedish Ballet.
She has also performed the role of Louise Bigelow in Nick Winston’s production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and was part of the Original London Cast of Christopher Wheeldon’s An American in Paris at the Dominion Theatre and latterly in the Asia Tour and at the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris.
Genevieve was a member of the 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 NEBT companies which included the lockdown film projects with Alice Pennefather, the filming of the Genesis ballets and most recently Jenna Lee’s Four Seasons, Wayne Eagling’s Remembrance and Daniela Cardim’s Nocturne pas de deux and Baroque Encounters.
Tamara Hinson
Tamara trained at the Arts Educational School, Tring Park and Elmhurst School for Dance.
She has danced professional with Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, The Israel Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
Her repertoire includes Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Balanchine’s Symphony in C and Serenade and Cranko’s Onegin.
She has most recently joined Birmingham Royal Ballet for their UK Swan Lake tour and worked on a new piece by choreographer Marika Brussel in the ENB studios.
Tamara was part of NEBT’s 2022 and 2023 companies.
Ella Mansford
Ella trained at the Royal Ballet School.
As a student, she performed with The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
After graduating, she danced with Mikhailovsky Ballet Theatre, Drew McOnie Creative Project, The United Ukrainian Ballet and Cape Town City Ballet.
Her repertoire includes roles in Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadère, Coppelia, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
This is her first season with NEBT.
Emily Pohl
Emily is incredibly excited to be working and performing with NEBT for the Spring/Summer 2024 Season.
Her pre-professional training started as Central School of Ballet, where she gained a First Class Degree, in association with the University of Kent. Upon graduation sheI joined
English National Ballet’s Professional Trainee Programme and has been fortunate enough to be selected to perform with the English National Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet in the Corps de Ballet for their productions of The Nutcracker and Cinderella. She has recently been offered contracts with English Youth Ballet, Brecon Festival Ballet, International Festival Ballet and Mergaliyev Classical Ballet, and has been fortunate enough to debut the Pas de Trois, Cygnets and Princesses in Swan Lake on tour in February.
Emily also had the privilege of collaborating with Freed of London, engaging in photography and modelling, and was further honoured to be chosen as a dancer by the iconic jewellery brand, Bvlgari, to elegantly showcase their Serpenti collection.
Alongside her professional career, Emily is part of an exciting new venture with the innovative Pointe Shoe company, ‘Act’ble’, working to build customer relations in Germany & the UK. This company works with top-tier athletes & are developing the technology to revolutionise the traditional pointe shoe & challenge the art form! She is also the 4th generation to work for her family dance school, based in Essex. BhwDance has just celebrated their centenary year & Emily takes immense pride in endorsing the institution where her professional journey initially commenced.
José Alves
Born in Brazil, José started ballet at the age of 13 and graduated from the Bolshoi Theatre School in Brazil in 2008.
He danced with the Ballet Company of the Young (Palace of Arts) in Belo, Brazil, and with Teatr Muzyczny w Łódz in Poland, before joining Ballet Black for the 2012/13 season, where he was promoted to Senior Artist in 2014.
José has danced in original choreography by Javier de Frutos, Will Tuckett, Ludovic Ondiviela and created the roles of Demetrius and Bottom in A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream by Arthur Pita, and The Son in Mark Bruce’s Second Coming.
After a year at Polski Teatr Tańca (Polish Dance Theatre), José returned to Ballet Black in 2016, where he danced roles in Martin Lawrance’s Captured and Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa’s Red Riding Hood and Arthur Pita’s A Dream Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He was also one of the lead dancers in the Company’s first live stream on World Ballet Day 2017.
In 2018, he won the 2018 Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Male Classical Dancer for creating the role of Philemon in Cathy Marston’s The Suit. Between 2019 and 2021, José danced in new ballets by Sophie Laplane, Mthuthuzeil November, Peter Leung, Will Tuckett and Martin Lawrance. His biography, A História De Um Bailarino Incomum by Taís Fernanda Reis was published in 2021.
This is his first season with NEBT.
Noah
Benzie-Drayton
Noah trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School and the European School of Ballet.
He has previously danced with the Paris Opera Ballet and the English National Ballet, and was a member of NEBT’s 2023 company.
Dan Corthorn
Dan trained at The Royal Ballet School and Laine Theatre Arts.
Whilst in training was awarded the Phyllis Bedells Bursary (2013) and Solo Seal (2016) from The Royal Academy Of Dance.
Before Joining NEBT, he danced in Cats The Musical at Dubai Opera House, with Michael Clark Company for their Australian and European tour of to a simple, rock ‘n’ roll . . . song, which was also filmed for BBC4, and performed in ABBA VOYAGE as a dancer.
Daniel was lucky enough in 2019 to choreograph and perform at London Fashion Week for Malan Breton’s Fashion Show.
He also has his own DanceWear brand ‘DANSWEAR’ to offer more of a variety of DanceWear to male dancers.
Daniel has been with NEBT for their 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023 seasons and was part of the creation process for Genesis.
Jethro Paine
Jethro started his dance training in south-eastern Europe where he lived for ten years, before attending the Royal Ballet School in London (2013-19).
He later moved to the United States to work as a professional dancer with Boston Ballet II.
Since kickstarting his career as a freelance dancer following the COVID-19 pandemic, Jethro has worked with English National Ballet on their production of Raymonda and The Nutcracker, followed by various short-term contracts with Ballet Cymru in Wales. He has also spent time touring with Zikr Dance Ensemble across Colorado and New Mexico in the United States.
Having recently completed an MSc in social anthropology at University College London with a Distinction, Jethro is looking forward to being back in London and working with NEBT!
Ben Randall
Graduating from Elmhurst Ballet School in 2021, Ben has performed as a ‘Wind’ in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker, the Paralympic homecoming ceremony for Deaf Men Dancing/DMD + with choreographer Mark Smith.
Alongside this, Ben has worked within Outdoor Arts, being a recipient of Arts Council England DYCP, completing several UK tours with the Deaf/hard of hearing dance group ‘Def Motion’.
Aitor Viscarolasaga Lopez
Aitor trained at CPD Carmen Amaya (Madrid) and Central School of Ballet. They have danced with Ballet Central, English National Ballet, at the Royal Opera House and with Finnish National Ballet.
Aitor’s repertoire includes Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker, Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Kenneth McMillan’s Valley of Shadows, Christopher Gable’s Cinderella, Wayne McGregor’s Far, Jenna Lee’s Black Swan, Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella in-the-round, Tamara Rojo’s Raymonda and Val Caniparoli’s Jekyll and Hyde.
They have also danced in the operas Death in Venice by David McVicar, Jenufa by Claus Guth and Nabucco by Daniele Abbado.
Aitor was a member of NEBT’s 2018, 2019 and 2022 seasons. In 2023 they joined NEBT as Rehearsal Director Assistant for Genesis Dance Project and New Works.
2023 Company
Olivia Boyd
Ana Freire
Genevieve Heron
Alice Higginbottom
Tamara Hinson
Casey Nokomis Pereira
Noah Benzie-Drayton
Eric Caterer Cave
Dan Corthorn
Mischa Goodman
George Leatherby
Alexander Nuttall (guest)
Nicholas Vavrečka
2022 Company
Dancers Autumn
Olivia Boyd
Giorgia Capogna
Genevieve Heron
Tamara Hinson
Natalia Kerner
Demelza Lesage
Mayuko Suzuki
Eric Caterer Cave
Mischa Goodman
Xholindi Muçi
Dylan Springer
Aitor Viscarolasaga Lopez
Dancers Summer
Olivia Boyd
Giorgia Capogna
Jill D’Haene
Genevieve Heron
Tamara Hinson
Natalia Kerner
Demelza Lesage
Camino Llonch
Mayuko Suzuki
Eric Caterer Cave
Dan Corthorn
Mischa Goodman
Tim Morgenstern
Xholindi Muçi
Dylan Springer
Aitor Viscarolasaga Lopez
2021 Company
Genevieve Heron
Camino Llonch
Orlando Bond
Dan Corthorn
Patrick Gill
Apprentices
Olivia Boyd
Giorgia Capogna
Jill D’Haene
Mayuko Suzuki
Kevin Alsina
James Garrington
Xholindi Muçi
2020 Company
Remedios Agustín Castaño
Anette Antal
Genevieve Heron
Mathilde Lambert
Demelza Lesage
Camino Llonch
Lian Sanchez Castro
Flavio Altieri
Ted Blackburn
Orlando Bond
Dan Corthorn
Gabriele Memoli
2019 Company
Marianne Allen
Anette Antal
Ermelinda Giacometti
Camino Llonch
Marta Rivero de Miranda
Kevin Bhoyroo
Dan Corthorn
Mario Gaglione
Alexander Nuttall
Dean Rushton
Aitor Viscarolasaga Lopez
2018 Company
Sophie Alnatt
Giuditta Banchetti
Camilla Chiesi
Ermelinda Giacometti
Alessia Lugoboni
Christina Rebecca Gibbs
Kevin Bhoyroo
Lorenzo Epifani
Benjamin Holloway
Andrea Marcelletti
Alexander Nuttall
Dean Rushton
Aitor Viscarolasaga Lopez
2017 Company
Giuditta Banchetti
Sarah Farnsley
Madeleine Green
Elena Hibberd
Maria Martins
Hannah Sofo
Giulio Galimberti
Alexander Nuttall
James Parratt
Matthieu Quincy
Seamus Wilkinson
2016 Company
Zoe Arshamian
Alexandra Cameron-Martin
Bethany Headland
Nicola Henshall
Cecilia Pacillo
Hannah Sofo
Isabella Swietlicki
Diogo Barbosa
Giulio Galimberti
Nathan Hunt
Pablo Luque Romero
Alexander Nuttall
Riccardo Rodighiero
Seamus Wilkinson
2015 Company
Hayley Blackburn
Alexandra Cameron-Martin
Fiona Cameron-Martin
Helena Enguidanos
Chantelle Gotobed
Mariá Huguet Planas
Chloe Anais Lopes Gomes
Emma Lucibello
Alessia Lugoboni
Arianna Marchiori
Simona Marsibilio
Abigail Mattox
György Baan
Niklas Blomkvist
Ivan Delgado del Rio
Joshua Harriette
Paul Oliver
Curtis Pooley
Matthieu Quincey
Silas Stubbs
Joshua Woodhams
2014 Company
Hayley Blackburn
Jessica Clyde
Mercedes Schindler
Yvonne Slingerland
Francesca Tennant
Justine Wisznia
György Baán
Joshua Barwick
Lorenzo Bernardi
Niklas Blomqvist
Ludovico Di Ubaldo
Matthieu Quincey
Silas Stubbs
2013 Company
Sophie Allnatt
Christina Cecchini
Jessica Clyde
Isabella Gasparini
Daniela Giannuzzi
Francesca Tennant
Justine Wisznia
György Baán
Joshua Barwick
Lorenzo Bernardi
Jack Cussans
Fabio Lo Giudice
Valerio Polverari
2012 Company
Hayley Blackburn
Katya Bourvis
Anita Bradshaw
Africa Brau Garcia
Eugenia Brezzi
Georgina Rose Connolly
Tiffany Goggin
Chiaki Korematsu
Sonoya Mizuno
Elsa Nguyen Trong
Ryoko Yagyu
Iván Delgado del Río
Jean-François Gabet
Alexander Nuttall
Daniel Pratt
Luca Rapis
Nicolas Scheuer
Silas Stubbs
Jack Thorpe-Baker
Ludovico di Ubaldo