Listed below are the most recent promotions, appointments, and departures, in addition to notable awards and accomplishments, from June 2026.
Comings & Goings
BodyVox affiliate inventive administrators Daniel Kirk and Brent Luebbert have been named co-artistic administrators alongside founding co-artistic administrators Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland.
Christopher Charles McDaniel succeeded Francis Patrelle as inventive director of Dances Patrelle on July 1.
Former Invoice T. Jones/Arnie Zane Firm affiliate inventive director Janet Wong has been named a co-creative director, alongside Jenn Kidwell, of the Beneath the Radar pageant, succeeding Kaneza Schaal and Meropi Peponides.
Lucy Guerin will step down from Lucy Guerin Inc on the finish of 2026.
Chicago Dance Historical past Mission government director Michael McStraw will depart the group to hitch the Harris Theater as interim president and CEO.
Boston Ballet government director Ming Min Hui will step down in November.
Martita Abril has been named inventive advisor of New York Reside Arts’ Contemporary Tracks program.
At Houston Ballet, Danbi Kim has been promoted to principal.
Chyrstyn Fentroy is becoming a member of Royal Swedish Ballet as a principal.
At Paris Opéra Ballet, Thomas Docquir has been promoted to étoile.
On the Nationwide Ballet of Canada, efficient in the beginning of the brand new season, Isaac Wright has been promoted to first soloist, Tene Ward to second soloist.
At English Nationwide Ballet, efficient with the beginning of the 2026–27 season, Julia Conway has been promoted to principal, Minju Kang and Noam Durand to first soloist, and Chloe Keneally, Shunhei Fuchiyama, and Jose María Lorca Mechón to soloist. Gustavo Carvalho joins as a primary soloist.
At Birmingham Royal Ballet, Yasiel Hodelín Bello has been promoted to first soloist, Rosanna Ely, Ryan Felix, Haoliang Feng, and Mason King to soloist. Principal dancer Samara Downs has retired from performing and can stay on the firm as a répétiteur.
At The Australian Ballet, Grace Carroll and Samara Merrick have been promoted to senior artist, Elijah Trevitt to soloist.
Awards & Honors
The Tony Award for Greatest Choreography went to Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons for CATS: The Jellicle Ball.
Winners on the UK’s 2025 Nationwide Dance Awards included Russell Maliphant (De Valois Award for Excellent Achievement), William Bracewell (Dancing Occasions Award for Greatest Male Dancer), Lauren Cuthbertson (Greatest Feminine Dancer), Nationwide Ballet of Japan (Stef Stefanou Award for Excellent Firm), Scottish Dance Theatre (Greatest Mid-Scale Firm), London Metropolis Ballet (Greatest Impartial Firm), Sophie Laplane (Greatest Classical Choreography, for Mary, Queen of Scots for Scottish Ballet), Kim Brandstrup (Greatest Fashionable Choreography, for Breaking Bach), Liam Francis (Rising Artist Award), Cordelia Braithwaite (Excellent Feminine Fashionable Efficiency, for The Purple Footwear), Paris Fitzpatrick (Excellent Male Fashionable Efficiency, for Quadrophenia), Roseanna Leney (Excellent Feminine Classical Efficiency, for Mary, Queen of Scots), and Ryoichi Hirano (Excellent Male Classical Efficiency, for Onegin).
Glenna Batson, Carla Lena Maxwell, and Dan Wagoner will posthumously obtain American Dance Competition’s 2026 Balasaraswati/Pleasure Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Educating.
Choreographers Marguerite Derricks, Farah Khan, Christopher Scott, and Jamal Sims have been invited to hitch the Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences.
Recipients of Sweat Variant’s 2026 Threading Residencies are SERAFINE1369 and Angel Shanel Edwards. Recipients of its Artists Supporting Artists Program are Souleymane “Solo” Badolo, Kayla Hamilton, and Kris Lee and Lauren Bakst.
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