Reece Clarke © Andre Uspenski
©Photo: Andre Uspenski
Reece Clarke © Andre Uspenski
©Photo: Andre Uspenski
Reece Clarke © Andre Uspenski
©Photo: Andre Uspenski
Reece Clarke © Andre Uspenski
©Photo: Andre Uspenski

Reece Clarke

Dancer
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“Clarke has presence as well as talent as a dancer, making an impressive debut in the role of Albrecht at The Royal Opera House”

First soloist: Royal Ballet

Scottish dancer Reece Clarke is a First Soloist of The Royal Ballet. He trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into the Company during the 2013/14 Season, and was promoted to First Artist in 2016, Soloist in 2017 and First Soloist in 2020.

Clarke’s appearances with The Royal Ballet Company have included Prince Siegfried (Swan Lake), Onegin, Albrecht (Giselle), Prince Florimund and Florestan (The Sleeping Beauty), Prince (The Nutcracker), Young Man (The Two Pigeons), Aminta (Sylvia), Polixenes and Antigonus (The Winter’s Tale), Dr Samuel-Jean Pozzi (Strapless), Officer (Anastasia), Des Grieux (Manon), Principal roles in Symphonic Variations, After the Rain, Monotones II, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Dances at a Gathering, Within the Golden Hour and In Our Wishes, as well as roles in Carbon Life and Obsidian Tear. He created roles in Charlotte Edmonds’s Meta and Liam Scarlett’s Symphonic Dances.

Within The Golden Hour pas de deux (Fumi Kaneko, Reece Clarke) © The Royal Ballet

“Reece Clarke dances with power and subtlety in the Royal Ballet’s Onegin.”

(Financial Times, 2020)

“Act Two saw Clarke impress with his dancing, unfurling his long limbs into movements of considerable beauty, displaying a beautiful line in arabesque and executing seemingly endless entrechats six”

(Classical Source, 2021)

“Clarke’s Albrecht is properly distressed as Albrecht looking every tall inch a danseur noble, enveloped in his sweeping cape. His performance was admirable. A series of entrechats sixes, first introduced by Rudolf Nureyev into Act II, never lost height until spell-bound Albrecht has to fall to the forest floor. Clarke has presence as well as talent as a dancer, making an impressive debut in the role.”

(DanceTabs, 2021)
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