Tamara Rojo, the creative director of English Nationwide Ballet and one of many largest names within the business, is stepping down after 10 years within the position, the corporate introduced on Tuesday.
The acclaimed dancer – who has launched groundbreaking works into the ENB’s repertoire, together with greater than 40 works choreographed by girls – will step down in late 2022 to take up the position of creative director at San Francisco Ballet, the place her husband, Isaac Hernández, was just lately appointed a principal dancer.
Rojo has been credited with giving ENB a brand new, worldwide attract, by means of modern and risk-taking commissions corresponding to Akram Khan’s Giselle.
She additionally led ENB into a brand new chapter in 2019 by transferring it into the RIBA award-winning Mulryan Centre for Dance in east London, a number of months earlier than the pandemic hit. Since then, she’s been a powerful advocate of the humanities, after ENB needed to furlough 85% of its workforce and lots of the workers, together with Rojo, took pay cuts.
Later this month, she is going to make her choreographic and directorial debut with Raymonda, her first full-length ballet, which ENB will carry out on the London Coliseum. In a current interview with the Guardian, she spoke about turning the 1898 ballet, set through the crusades, into a brand new manufacturing impressed by Florence Nightingale and the Crimean warfare.
ENB mentioned it can appoint an Inventive Advisory Panel to help the board within the seek for Rojo’s alternative. In the meantime, Rojo will turn out to be the primary lady to steer the oldest skilled ballet firm within the US, based in 1933.
In a press release, she mentioned it had been “an honour” to have led ENB since 2012. “I'm extremely pleased with all that we've achieved collectively, from the great expertise working inside and alongside the corporate, to creating and transferring into the superb new constructing we now name our residence, to the off-stage communities we've established with our training and engagement work,” she mentioned.
“English Nationwide Ballet’s basic intention to carry world-class ballet to the widest attainable viewers has all the time resonated with me. It's the cause the corporate has been part of my life for thus a few years, from performing right here as a dancer early in my profession, to returning as creative director in 2012. My admiration and help don't finish right here. I'll stay invested in English Nationwide Ballet’s continued success within the years to return.”
English Nationwide Ballet’s chair, Sir Roger Carr, mentioned Rojo had propelled the corporate to new heights.
“After 10 years on the helm,” he mentioned, “the legacy that Tamara leaves shall be lengthy lasting and it's hoped that in her new place in San Francisco she can have the chance to capitalise on previous achievements and construct a bridge between these two nice ballet firms for joint endeavours to our mutual profit.” He added: “I converse on behalf of us all on the English Nationwide Ballet after I supply my honest thanks and need Tamara each success sooner or later.”
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