The AGM, and interview with Rebecca Stewart and Emile Gooding - (via Zoom)
The AGM of the LONDON BALLET CIRCLE and interview with Rebecca Stewart and Emile Gooding, recipients of the 2024 Dame Ninette de Valois Awards
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At the AGM, recipients of the 2024 Dame Ninette de Valois Awards Rebecca Stewart and Emile Gooding will be interviewed.
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Rebecca Myles Stewart joined The Royal Ballet’s Aud Jebsen Young Dancers programme at the beginning of the 2024/25 Season.
Raised in Maryland, Rebecca Myles Stewart began dancing at age 4 in all genres of dance. Training at local studios and briefly at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, she studied primarily under the tutelage of Andrea Long and Stanislav Issaev. Rebecca has garnered many awards at Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), and also performed in New York City as Clara in the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes.
In 2021, she joined The Royal Ballet Upper School. Whilst there, she won 2nd prize in the Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance. In her graduate year, she participated in the Rhythm in Resilience festival at the Royal Opera House, as a part of Autumn Draft Works and Insights: Ballet and the Black Experience. Rebecca also took part in The Royal Ballet’s Insight collaboration with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Black Dancers in Ballet – Sharing a Rich Trans-Atlantic Legacy.
Born in Reading, Emile Gooding began dancing at the age of 6 exploring various styles as well as gymnastics. His young dance training led him to join Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in 2015. In 2016, he became Billy in Billy Elliot the Musical, which toured the UK and Ireland. He continued his ballet journey by joining The Royal Ballet School White Lodge for Year 9, in 2018.
During his time at the School, he was awarded the Valerie Adams Award for Exceptional Musicality, the Marie Taglioni Handshake Award as well as the Gailene Stock award for Exceptional Progress. He graduated The Royal Ballet Upper School in 2024 after 6 years of full-time training.
