“For the audition for the third year they don't do 50 per cent but they do take out a good helping of people and it's never easy. The cut from 29 to 22, as dancers prepared to enter their final year of study, wasn’t as severe. Half of Ravi’s classmates in White Lodge, the Lower School, were not accepted into Upper School. And to have been offered a place in the pre-professional year, the graduate year, it's honestly unbelievable.”Īuditions come at various points of the Royal Ballet School programme.
“For this year they often go around the world looking for people who are the same age but have done competitions or they've won scholarships from competition the best of the best. It’s kind of been my driving point for most of my training and one of those kinds of overhanging anxieties that I've had because it is such a difficult year to be accepted into and they really take it down to the wire in who they pick,” the 18-year-old said. “This audition has been my main focus for the last year. It puts him one spot closer to achieving his long-held dream of joining a professional dance company in 2024. He has been accepted into the final year of the Royal Ballet School, something he has been working towards since he began his studies at the prestigious dance academy at the age of 11. Ravi Cannonier-Watson has hit a spectacular mark in the world of dance. Something special: Ravi Cannonier-Watson looks forward to his final year at the Royal Ballet School, London (Photograph supplied)
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