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Sat, 22nd May 2010

Click: Website of Vanessa Fenton www.vanessafenton.co.uk

Vanessa Fenton choreography excerpts:
Seacastles for the Royal Ballet
Step By Step - at the Royal Opera House
Turret extract
Ad Infinitum and On Public Display excerpts
Deliverance
Wind & Waves exercpt
Eden for Royal Ballet
Dance International Interview

Vanessa Fenton: Trained at the Royal Ballet School, winning the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award, the Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award, Paul Clarke Award and a Kerrison Cooke Bursary for outstanding achievement in dance.

She went on to dance with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Ballet National de Marseille with Roland Petit, English National Ballet, Jenny Jackson at
The Place theatre and Wayne Sleep at the London Coliseum. She joined The Royal Ballet in 1998.

Since her choreographic successes at the Royal Ballet School she has continued to create dance, including: Beat of My Drum (1994) and Sing the Body (1995) at the Cochrane Theatre;
Ave Maria, a choreographic film shot in Bologne for Opera Video; Moi, a pas de deux given by dancers of the Ballet National de Marseille for a gala performance at the Biarritz Theatre, France; Riflessi veneziani, commissioned and performed for the Italian Embassy at Westminster Theatre; and further works for the Royal Ballet School. She has also choreographed at the Union Chapel with Matthew Hawkins, and in 2000 she won the PROMIS Award for new choreography.

Her work for The Royal Ballet includes Ad Infinitum (2000, Linbury), Frozen (2001, Clore), Knots (2002, Artists Development Initiative Clore), Absolutely Not (2003,Sound Moves Conference Clore) and Deliverance (2003, Clore),On Public Display (2004, part of the Inspired by Diaghilev programme) Seacastles (2005), Eden (2005), Central St Martin's School of Art degree show choreography (2005), Two's Company 1 and Two's Company 2 (2006) Winner of the L'Oreal Total look Award (2006). She has also choreographed for violinist Vasko Vassilev in the Linbury. She directed an evening of dance in Bermuda with dancers of The Royal Ballet. She has choreographed dancers for Shirley Bassey for the launch of a Siemens mobile phone. More recently she choreographed A Little Princess for the London Children’s Ballet at the Peacock Theatre and a piece for the Royal Ballet School at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Monument (2008), Turret for New English Contemporary Ballet tour (2008) Song Without Words (2009) Britten Theatre, One Shade The More (2010) and works for the Clore and Linbury theatres.

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