Principal Dancer
Matthew Ball is an English ballet dancer and is currently a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet.
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Beginning ballet at age six, Matthew Ball entered The Royal Ballet Lower School at eleven and progressed through the Upper School before graduating in 2013 to join the company as a corps de ballet member. His rapid ascent—marked by a breakthrough performance as Albrecht in Giselle in 2018 and promotion to Principal Dancer that same year—established him as one of the company's most dramatically compelling dancers, equally at home in the classical canon and in cutting-edge contemporary work.
Promoted to Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet in July 2018; named Best Emerging Artist at the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards in 2016
The Royal Ballet Lower School; The Royal Ballet Upper School; The Royal Ballet School (graduated 2013)
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