Delia Mathews

Delia Mathews was born in New Zealand and started her ballet training at The Dance Education Centre in Tauranga before moving to London to study at The Royal Ballet School. She joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2008 after graduating from the school and was promoted to Principal in 2017.

Her repertoire includes Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Title role in Cinderella, The Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Natalia Petrovna in A Month in the Country, In The Upper Room as well as creating roles in works by David Bintley, Alexander Whitley and Jessica Lang.

William Bracewell

William was born in Swansea where he trained at the Pamela Miller Ballet School and from the age of 11, at The Royal Ballet School. Awards while a student include the 2007 Young British Dancer of the Year Award and the grand prix at the 2010 Youth America Grand Prix. He joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2010 and is currently dancing as a soloist at The Royal Ballet

Téo Dubreuil

English dancer Téo Dubreuil is an First Artist of The Royal Ballet. He trained at The Royal Ballet School winning 2nd prize in the Young British Dancer of the Year competition in 2011. Teo graduated from school into English National Ballet at age 17, going on to join The Royal Ballet in 2014. Whilst dancing with English National Ballet, featured roles included; the Pas de Trois in Swan Lake and the Pas de Cinq in Serge Lifar’s; Suite en Blanc. Now with The Royal Ballet, he performs in the majority of the Company’s repertoire. Featured roles have included a Cavalier in The Sleeping Beauty, the Pas de Six in Sir Peter Wright’s Giselle and the duet in Christopher Wheeldon’s; Within the Golden Hour. He has created roles in Hofesh Shechter’s Untouchable, Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, Liam Scarlets Frankenstein and Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games.

David Peden

David (ARAD dip. P.D.T.C.) was trained at The Royal Ballet School from the age of 13 and subsequently joined The Royal Ballet Company becoming a Senior Soloist where he danced many principal roles, amongst his extensive repertoire were The Young Man in The Two Pigeons, Symphonic Variations, Afternoon of a Faun, Blue boy in Les Patinuers, Lead man in Rubies, The Bluebird & Florestan in The Sleeping Beauty, Colas, La Fille mal Gardee, Franz in Coppelia, pas de Trois in Glen Tetley’s Voluntaries, William Forsythe’s Steptext.

He also performed with the National Ballet of Canada as a 1st soloist, Pacific Northwest Ballet, British Ballet Columbia and English National Ballet. David has had roles created on him by Ashton, MacMillan, Lubovitch, Canniparoli, Deane, Corder, Page to name a few.

After retiring from the stage David successfully gained distinction from The Royal Academy’s Professional dancers teaching course.

David worked as Ballet Master for the Ankara State Ballet Company and Singapore Dance Theatre. He guest teaches for The English National Ballet Company as well as teaching and judging internationally. An experienced teacher, until as recent as December 2014 David taught all levels at The Royal Ballet Upper School for 15 years, primarily responsible for the second year boys. He has staged Les Patinuers and Concerto for The Royal Ballet School’s annual performances as well as being instrumental in rehearsing many of their performances throughout the years. He has now embarked on an international freelance career.

Engagements 2015-2017 Matthew Bourne’s Adventures Company, New Zealand School of Dance, Master classes in Tokyo and Sendai, The National ballet of Portugal, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Basel Theater and Basel Ballet School, Cape Town(C.A.P.A), English National Ballet School,The National Ballet of Canada,The National Ballet School of Canada, Zürich ballet Company, The Royal Ballet Company (September 2017).

David is the Artistic advisor for The Gailene Stock CBEMemorial Award in Japan. This is a workshop over a 3 day period which culminates in students receiving a summer school scholarship to either The New Zealand School of Dance,The Australian Ballet School, Basel Theater School, Canada's national ballet school.The inaugural award took place in Tokyo April 29th 2016.

Marius Arnold-Clarke

Marius trained in dance at the Royal Ballet School in Richmond Park before sustaining an injury in 2000. He went on to study at Durham University, returning to The Royal Ballet School as it’s Theatre Manager between 2005 and 2008. He has held the role of DSM at both the Royal Opera House and Linbury Studio. Attempting to move away from the dance world, he became Production Manager at the global events company Imagination where he was in charge of global installations and events for Jaguar Land Rover, Extreme Sailing Series and Rolls Royce. Turning freelance in 2014, he has worked consistently with Sadler’s Wells Production and Touring Department, acting as Touring Production Manager for productions such as Havana Rakatan and Sidi Larbi’s Cherkaoui’s Milonga, Company Stage Manager for Vamos Cuba, Hussein Chalayan’s Gravity Fatigue, Sutra and Deputy Stage Manager for Breakin’ Convention International Tours. He continues to work on other productions around the world including German Cornejo’s Immortal Tango and Break The Tango.