Dutch National Ballet Academy - Ernst Meisner

Filmed during class, rehearsals and this year's performance of Dansers van Morgen, this short documentary on the Dutch National Ballet Academy includes an interview with artistic director Ernst Meisner who talks about the structure of the academy, some of the ballets in the end-of-year performance and how the school has been able to accept nine displaced Ukrainian ballet students. Three of the academy's graduates share their audition experiences and job successes.

Dutch National Ballet Academy
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - ERNST MEISNER
ARTISTIC ADVISER - TED BRANDSEN

DANSERS VAN MORGEN
End of Year Performance

Excerpts from
The Sleeping Beauty, Garland Dance
CHOREOGRAPHY - ERNST MEISNER
Artifact Suite
CHOREOGRAPHY - WILLIAM FORSYTHE

Harmless Banter
CHOREOGRAPHY - MAYA SMALLWOOD

Raymonda - Mazurka
CHOREOGRAPHY - MARIUS PETIPA / STAGING - RACHEL BEAUJEAN

If Only I Knew The Right Way
CHOREOGRAPHY - ZOË GRETEN

Poulenc Suite
CHOREOGRAPHY - ERNST MEISNER

Graduates’ Contracts for the 2022-23 Season
Lauren Alving - Junior Ballet Antwerp
Gil Ben Ayon - Slovenian National Ballet
Christiana de Blank - Royal Swedish Ballet
Lily Carbone - 2nd Year Junior Company, Dutch National Ballet
Poppi Eccleston - 1st Year Junior Company, Dutch National Ballet
Matteo Fogli - Ballet National de Marseille
Yuma Funai - Junior Company, Compagnie Chorégrafique François Maudit
Zoë Greten - Nederlands Dans Theatre II, apprentice
Grace Humphris - Introdans, apprentice
Nicola Jones - 2nd Year Junior Company, Dutch National Ballet
Himari Kamigaito - Ballet do Douro, Portugal
Kirill Monereo de la Sota - Royal Swedish Ballet
Rui Nagahori - Baltic Opera, Gdansk
Arisa Namba - Ballet of the State Opera Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Natsuna Oya - Hungarian National Ballet
Robin Park - 1st Year Junior Company, Dutch National Ballet
Gabriel Rajah - 2nd Year Junior Company, Dutch National Ballet
Carolina Ribaldone - 1st Year, Junior Company, Dutch National Ballet
João Santana Domingos - Royal Swedish Ballet
Wisse Scheele - Slovakian National Ballet
Calista Shepheard - Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
Clara Strassel - Washington Ballet trainee
Soshi Suzuki - 1st Year Junior Company, Dutch National Ballet
Mingus de Swaan - Joffrey Ballet Studio Company
Konosuke Takeoka - Béjart Ballet Lausanne
Sarah Trinder - Slovakian National Ballet
Olmo Verbeeck - Finnish National Ballet
Lea Visser - Introdans
Louisella Vogt - 2nd Year Junior Company, Dutch National Balle
t
Sven de Wilde - 2nd Year Junior Company, Dutch National Ballet
Ayano Yokoi - K-Ballet, Japan


Classes, rehearsals and performance filmed at
DUTCH NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET
AMSTERDAM

FILMED AND EDITED BY
Emma Kauldhar
A DANCE EUROPE FILM
© 2022