Matthew Ball (dancer)

Matthew Ball (born December 1993) is a British ballet dancer. As of 2018, he is a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet in London.

Matthew Ball
BornDecember 1993 (age 26)
Liverpool, England
NationalityBritish
EducationThe Royal Ballet School
OccupationBallet dancer
Known forPrincipal dancer with The Royal Ballet

Ball was born in December 1993 in Liverpool, England, the son of a dance teacher mother and a drama teacher and writer father.[1][2]

He trained at The Royal Ballet School.[1] He joined The Royal Ballet during the 2013/14 season, was promoted to first artist in 2015, soloist in 2016, first soloist in 2017 and principal dancer in 2018.[1]

At the Royal Ballet he has danced many of the major classical roles including Prince Florimund and Bluebird (Sleeping Beauty), Prince (Nutcracker), Solor (Bayadere), Romeo, Crown Prince Rudolf (Mayerling), De Grieux (Manon), Basilio (Don Quixote), Albrecht (Giselle), Lensky (Onegin), Armand (Marguerite and Armand), Escamillo (Carmen) and Beliaev (Month in the Country). In 2018, he danced The Swan in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake for 32 performances at Sadler's Wells.[2]

Ball lives in Holborn, London.[2]

References
  1. "Matthew Ball, Principal of The Royal Ballet". Royal Opera House. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  2. "Royal Ballet principal Matthew Ball: 'I was hungry to do Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake'". Evening Standard. 4 December 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2020.


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