Yasmine Naghdi

Yasmine Naghdi (London 25th March 1992) is a British ballet dancer for the Royal Ballet.

Training and career

She started training at The Royal Ballet School as a junior associate in 2002 and joined The Royal Ballet School, White Lodge in 2004, at the age of 12. She was selected by the director Gailene Stock to represent the School in an exchange programme with the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St Petersburg and was awarded the "Progress and Endeavour Prize for Classical Ballet" in 2007. She features in the BBC documentary "The Magic of Swan Lake" in collaboration with Darcey Bussell. As a student, she worked with The Royal Ballet dancing in Cinderella, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty and La fille mal gardée.^{[citation needed]}

She progressed to the RBS Upper School in September 2008 and was awarded the 1st prize in the Young British Dancer of the Year competition in March 2009. She progressed from 1st year straight into 3rd Year, the final year. A few months later, at the age of 17, she was offered a contract with The Royal Ballet and joined the company in April 2010. She was promoted to demi-soloist (first artist) in 2012.

During her brief time in the graduate year, she danced Kenneth MacMillan's Concerto, 2nd movement, at the John Neumeier gala in Hamburg, in Toronto and Tokyo. In March of 2010 she was invited to dance at the Birmingham Royal Ballet 20th Anniversary Gala ^{[citation needed]}

Soon after joining The Royal Ballet, she danced in the world premiere of Liam Scarlett's Asphodel Meadows, Symphony in C, One Shade The More choreographed by Vanessa Fenton. She also danced the Pas de Deux Dream Study – Tenderness, created by Erico Montes, for the Charity Ashanti Development.

She has performed in Canada, Japan and Germany.

Honors

First Prize winner, 2009, Young British Dancer of the Year.^[1]

References

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