Joseph Caley

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Joseph Caley
Born
Hull, England
Education The Royal Ballet School
Occupationballet dancer
Years active2005-present
Career
Current group English National Ballet
Former groups Birmingham Royal Ballet

Joseph Caley is an English ballet dancer. He joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet and became a principal dancer in 2011. He left in 2017 to join the English National Ballet and was promoted to lead principal months later. Caley joined the Australian Ballet in 2022 as a principal artist.

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Early life

Caley was born in Hull. [1] He started dancing when his mother sent him to the same dance school his sister went, and had two afternoon sessions per week. [2] He was then sent to audition for the Royal Ballet Lower School and was accepted. He later progressed to the Upper School. [2]

Career

In his second year at the Royal Ballet Upper School, Caley was invited by Birmingham Royal Ballet's then-artistic director David Bintley to join the company, but the school's director at the time Gailene Stock convinced him to have one more year of training, [2] before he joined the company in 2005, and became a principal dancer in 2011. [1] Among the ballets he danced lead roles in are Giselle , Swan Lake , The Sleeping Beauty , The Nutcracker and Cinderella . [1]

In July 2017, Caley announced that he would join the London-based English National Ballet as a principal for "diversity of repertoire." [2] In the first few months in the company, the roles he danced included Romeo in Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet , James in La Sylphide , The Man in Song of the Earth . [3] In December that year, his promotion to lead principal was announced at backstage, following a performance of The Nutcracker, in which he danced The Nephew. The promotion was effective the following month. [3] One of the lead roles he had danced since was Des Grieux in Manon . [4]

He made an appearance with the Birmingham Royal Ballet in June 2018. [5] Other guest appearances he made includes Miyako Yoshida's Stars Dancer Ballet in Japan, The Australian Ballet, and at the opening of Hull UK City of Culture 2017. [3]

In 2022, Caley left the English National Ballet to join the Australian Ballet as a principal artist. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Joseph Caley is to join English National Ballet as Principal". Gramilano. 3 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Interview with Joseph Caley, English National Ballet's new Principal Dancer". Gramilano. 22 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Joseph Caley promoted to Lead Principal of English National Ballet". Gramilano. 17 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Levene, Louise (18 January 2019). "Manon, London Coliseum, review — every step has been fine-tuned". Financial Times.
  5. ↑ Guerreino, Tess (16 June 2018). "BRB, Polarity and Proximity Review". Cultural Whisperer.
  6. ↑ "English National Ballet announces promotions and new company members". Gramilano. 31 May 2022.
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