{"id":11339,"date":"2021-04-23T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=11339"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:24","slug":"shevelle-dynott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/shevelle-dynott\/","title":{"rendered":"Shevelle Dynott"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-block-id=\"block-c852e64c-deca-4924-9321-c2853292338a\"><strong>Shevelle Dynott<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 data-block-id=\"block-4e0d5a5c-2c76-404b-8d99-49d93b0fbae7\"><strong>English National Ballet (2005-2020)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-6fb0da24-fdfd-4146-b9bf-56420cf1d0ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ql-img alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/t8541063.p.clickup-attachments.com\/t8541063\/8ff0d155-e28f-4fef-a8d4-5ebdc5dcc32c\/image.png\" width=\"258\" height=\"376.00896860986546\" data-id=\"8ff0d155-e28f-4fef-a8d4-5ebdc5dcc32c.png\" \/>Shevelle Dynott, born to Jamaican parents in 1986 and raised in Brixton, London, started dancing at five years old. At age seven, he joined the Royal Ballet\u2019s Chance to Dance program, which \u201cencouraged talented children from diverse backgrounds to participate in free ballet classes across four boroughs of London\u201d (Bourne 60). In 1997, he earned a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School and performed at the Royal Opera House in <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, <em>Prologue de fugue<\/em>, <em>Les Patieneurs<\/em>, and <em>La Valse<\/em> as a student. In 2001, Dynott performed for Queen Elizabeth and her family at Windsor Castle. He participated in the Gen\u00e9e International Ballet Competition from 2002 to 2004, winning a bronze medal his final year.<\/div>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-24b42880-4293-4b09-b427-65adf3da6e38\">His professional career began when he joined the English National Ballet in 2005. Dynott has performed featured roles in <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, <em>Puss-in-Boots<\/em>, <em>The Nutcracker<\/em>, and <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>.<\/div>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-f08deec9-7d03-4423-a7c2-30cec909d8d0\">He left the company in 2020. He now works as a freelance artist and attends the Identity School of Acting.<\/div>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-737305c3-184f-4562-84a4-da87aaf5d244\">A photograph of Dynott has been displayed in Washington DC\u2019s National Portrait Gallery.<\/div>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-737305c3-184f-4562-84a4-da87aaf5d244\"><\/div>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-737305c3-184f-4562-84a4-da87aaf5d244\"><\/div>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-737305c3-184f-4562-84a4-da87aaf5d244\"><\/div>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-737305c3-184f-4562-84a4-da87aaf5d244\"><\/div>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-737305c3-184f-4562-84a4-da87aaf5d244\"><\/div>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-737305c3-184f-4562-84a4-da87aaf5d244\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/185477102\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div data-block-id=\"block-ed037bdc-5329-4bc8-8a25-a91f50c99148\">\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices. Germany, Springer International Publishing, 2018.<br \/>\n<a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brixtonblog.com\/2021\/01\/brixtons-black-ballet-dancer-is-back\/?cn-reloaded=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brixton\u2019s Black ballet dancer is back, Brixton Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N9BiR6wngJc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joshua McSherry-Gray and Shevelle Dynott talk about dancing in Nureyev\u2019s Romeo &amp; Juliet<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npg.org.uk\/collections\/search\/person\/mp160090\/shevelle-dynott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shevelle Dynott, National Portrait Gallery<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pure.roehampton.ac.uk\/ws\/portalfiles\/portal\/823538\/Sandie_Bourne_PhD_Dance_Studies_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black British Ballet: Race, Representation and Aesthetics, by Sandie Mae Bourne<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/185477102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Happy World Ballet Day 2016 from Shevelle Dynott!<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P8SOf1t__YU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shevelle Dynott &#8211; Interview from the Instagram live conversation during lockdown 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sdynott\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@sdynott<\/a><br \/>\nLinkedIn <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shevelle-dynott-5b296228?originalSubdomain=uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shevelle Dynott<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sdynott?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@sdynott<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shevelle Dynott English National Ballet (2005-2020) Shevelle Dynott, born to Jamaican parents in 1986 and raised in Brixton, London, started dancing at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11474,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions\/11474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}