Nancy Osbaldeston

Nancy Osbaldeston was born in the United Kingdom in 1989. She studied at the Cardwell Theatre School and at the English National Ballet School. She joined the English National Ballet Company in 2008. She danced roles such as Lead Bandit Girl in Roland Petit’s Carmen, Pas de Cinq, Serenade solo in Suite en Blanc (Serge Lifar), Stepsister in Cinderella (Michael Corder), Neopolitan, Cygnets in Swan Lake in the Round (Derek Deane) and Ballerina in Petrushka by Michel Fokine, for which she was nominated for a National Dance Award for Outstanding Female Classical Performance. In 2013 she won the ENB Emerging Dancer Award. Before she came to Antwerp, she was promoted to First Artist at the English National Ballet. She has been with the Royal Ballet of Flanders since 2014 as a demi soloist. In 2016 she was promoted to soloist and in 2017 to principal.