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[Jane Simpson]

The RDB has posted changes to the company for next season.

Principals:

- Rose Gad and Silja Schandorff have retired; Schandorff is now listed as an  
Instruktør

Soloists:

- as is already widely known, Jodie Thomas joins from Pacific Northwest Ballet
- Kizzy Howard is now Kizzy Matiakis

Corps de ballet joiners:

- Caroline Baldwin (won a scholarship to the RDB school at YAGP 2008)
- Carling Talcott (SAB, MCB apprentice)
- Alexandra lo Sardo (RBS, Dresden Ballet)

- Mads Eriksen returns to the company after a couple of seasons' absence

New Aspirants:

- Oda Grøner (Norwegian, just graduated from the RBS)
- Andreas Kaas (RDB school)
- Oscar Nillson (RDB School)

[Mashinka]

The name change for Kizzy Howard would indicate she and Tim have formally tied the knot.  Congratulations to both of them.

[Jane Simpson]

Jodie Thomas makes her debut as an RDB member tonight in the fourth movement of Symphony in C, which forms part of a preview of the new season's opera and ballet productions, given in the open air at the Rosenborg Eksercerplads in Copenhagen and also transmitted live on a big screen in the city centre. She'll be dancing with Ulrik Birkkjaer.

Also included is an extract from Jerome Robbins's West Side Story Suite, wih a cast including Gitte Lindstrøm as Anita.

[Rosie]

Jane Simpson, on Aug 4 2009, 05:45 PM, said:

The RDB has posted changes to the company for next season.

Principals:

- Rose Gad and Silja Schandorff have retired; Schandorff is now listed as an  
Instruktør

Soloists:

- as is already widely known, Jodie Thomas joins from Pacific Northwest Ballet
- Kizzy Howard is now Kizzy Matiakis

Corps de ballet joiners:

- Caroline Baldwin (won a scholarship to the RDB school at YAGP 2008)
- Carling Talcott (SAB, MCB apprentice)
- Alexandra lo Sardo (RBS, Dresden Ballet)

- Mads Eriksen returns to the company after a couple of seasons' absence

New Aspirants:

- Oda Grøner (Norwegian, just graduated from the RBS)
- Andreas Kaas (RDB school)
- Oscar Nillson (RDB School)

What has happend to Eliza Mullholland and Anna Kuran?
They were listed as aspirants i think

[miliosr]

Interesting factoid from the interview w/ Nikolaj Hubbe in the August/September issue of Pointe  -- 40% of the RDB's 98 dancers are foreign (including a dozen from North America.)

Make of it what you will . . .