{"id":1317,"date":"2017-04-12T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:30","slug":"francesca-hayward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/francesca-hayward\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Hayward"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Francesca Hayward<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>The Royal Ballet: Artist (2010-2013), First Artist (2013-2014), Soloist (2014-2015), First Soloist (2015-2016), Principal (2016-present)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1320\" src=\"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ba2e6fa535edcbd3dfdd2e18cc5e1056.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ba2e6fa535edcbd3dfdd2e18cc5e1056.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ba2e6fa535edcbd3dfdd2e18cc5e1056-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ba2e6fa535edcbd3dfdd2e18cc5e1056-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ba2e6fa535edcbd3dfdd2e18cc5e1056-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English dancer Francesca Hayward is a principal of The Royal Ballet. She trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into the company during the 2010\/11 season, was promoted to first artist in 2013, soloist in 2014, first soloist in 2015, and principal in 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hayward studied at The Royal Ballet School from 2003 to 2011 and while a student won the 2009 Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance, the 2010 Young British Dancer of the Year, and both silver medal and the Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Gen\u00e9e International Ballet Competition. After joining The Royal Ballet, she represented the company at the 2012 International Competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize and won Best Emerging Artist (2014) and Grishko Award For Best Female Dancer (2016) at the Critics\u2019 Circle National Dance Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her repertory with the company includes Juliet, Alice, Manon, Lise (<em>La Fille mal gard\u00e9e<\/em>), the female principal role in <em>Rhapsody<\/em>, Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara (<em>The Nutcracker<\/em>), Princess Aurora and Princess Florine (<em>The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>), Princess Stephanie (<em>Mayerling<\/em>), Perdita (<em>The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em>), Vera (<em>A Month in the Country<\/em>), Girl (<em>The Invitation<\/em>), Justine (<em>Frankenstein<\/em>) and roles in \u2018Emeralds\u2019 (<em>Jewels<\/em>), <em>The Human Seasons<\/em>, <em>Swan Lake<\/em>, <em>Don Quixote<\/em>, <em>Giselle<\/em>, <em>Infra<\/em>, <em>Ballo della regina<\/em>, <em>Symphony in C<\/em>, <em>Asphodel Meadows<\/em>, <em>Within the Golden Hour<\/em>, and <em>Carbon Life<\/em>. She created roles in <em>Untouchable<\/em>, <em>Woolf Works<\/em>, and <em>Multiverse<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roh.org.uk\/people\/francesca-hayward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francesca Hayward, The Royal Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4eK0SgmkqsE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>See also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"headline__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/dance\/what-to-see\/sleeping-beauty-royal-ballet-covent-garden-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell rise to the occasion &#8211; The Sleeping Beauty, Royal Ballet, review, Telegraph<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2014\/oct\/19\/francesca-hayward-next-great-ballerina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francesca Hayward: the next great British ballerina?, The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointemagazine.com\/francesca-hayward-the-royal-ballet-2412851665.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francesca Hayward: The Royal Ballet&#8217;s Next Crown Jewel, Pointe Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/385328ae-8503-11e6-8897-2359a58ac7a5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Q&amp;A with the Royal Ballet\u2019s Francesca Hayward, Financial Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Video links:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4eK0SgmkqsE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francesca Hayward on dancing the role of Manon for the first time (The Royal Ballet)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJnlqi8ERUo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Unfolded by Cocorose London &#8211; Francesca Hayward, Elsa Goddard &amp; Leticia Stock<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Social media:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CEmMH9Fhf8j\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">@frankiegoestohayward<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesca Hayward The Royal Ballet: Artist (2010-2013), First Artist (2013-2014), Soloist (2014-2015), First Soloist (2015-2016), Principal (2016-present) English dancer Francesca Hayward is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1317","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\/1317","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7342,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/7342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}