Claire Calvert
{{short description|English ballet dancer}}
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Claire Louise Calvert (born 1988) is an English ballet dancer and is a first soloist at the Royal Ballet.{{cite web|url=http://www.roh.org.uk/people/claire-calvert|title=Claire Calvert|website=Royal Opera House|access-date=23 April 2020}}
Early life and training
Calvert started ballet training at the age of three. She started attending The Royal Ballet School when she was 11, where she was coached by Darcey Bussell.{{Cite news|url=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20151129/arts-entertainment/The-ballerina.593968|title=The ballerina|author=Allied Newspapers Ltd|newspaper=Times of Malta|access-date=2017-01-16}}{{Cite web |title=Cupcakes & Conversation with Claire Calvert, Artist, The Royal Ballet |date=2009-08-08 |work=Ballet News |url=http://balletnews.co.uk/claire-calvert-interviewed-for-cupcakes-conversation/ |access-date=2017-01-12}}{{Cite web|url=https://katchkadeemtheatre.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/claire-calvert-this-royal-ballerina-will-wear-blobs-for-her-sugar-plum-debut/|title=Claire Calvert: This Royal Ballerina will wear ‘Blobs’ for her Sugar Plum Début|last=KatchKadeem|date=2016-12-27|website=KatchKadeem|access-date=2017-01-12}} She danced lead roles Raymonda Act III and Jabula on her graduation year. While she was a student, she danced roles such as a swan in Swan Lake, a nymph in The Sleeping Beauty and a snowflake in The Nutcracker at The Royal Ballet.{{cite web|url=https://www.boodles.com/behind-the-scenes-of-pas-de-deux-and-the-royal-ballet/|title=Behind the Scenes of 'Pas de Deux' and The Royal Ballet|website=Boodles|access-date=23 April 2020}}
Career
Calvert graduated into The Royal Ballet in 2007. In 2009, while she was still an Artist, she made her principal role debut, as The Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty. She was subsequently named First Artist in 2010, Soloist in 2012 and First Soloist in 2016. She has since other principal roles such as the Queen of Dryads and Mercedes in Don Quixote, Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Queen of the Willis in Giselle, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, Gypsy Girl in The Two Pigeons, Sugar Plum Fairy and Rose Fairy in The Nutcracker and Mitzi Caspar in Mayerling She has created roles in works including Aeternum and Charlotte Edmonds’s dance film The Indifferent Beak (Deloitte Ignite 14).{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/apr/10/claire-calvert-q-and-a-hermione-winters-tale-royal-ballet|title=Claire Calvert: When I was little I wasn’t saying ‘Mummy I want to be a ballerina’|work=The Guardian|last=Jennings|first=Luke|date=10 April 2016}}
Personal life
In 2022, Calvert married Royal Ballet principal dancer Alexander Campbell.{{Cite web|url=https://balletassociation.co.uk/pages/reports-2023-alexander-campbell|title=Alexander Campbell Principal, The Royal Ballet|website=Ballet Association|first=David|last=Bain|date=28 February 2023|accessdate=10 May 2024}} The couple have a daughter, born in 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CxSpj_UIhtk/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==|title=Oh Isla Rose Campbell you have stolen our hearts. Welcomed to the world on the 13.9.2023 and already bring us all the love and joy.|author=Claire Calvert|via=Instagram|date=17 September 2023|accessdate=10 May 2024}}
Selected repertoire
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- The Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty
- Hermione in The Winter’s Tale
- Sugar Plum Fairy and Rose Fairy in The Nutcracker
- Gamzatti in La Bayadère
- Mother/Queen of Hearts in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Odette/Odile in Swan Lake
- Olga in Winter Dreams
- Tsarevna in The Firebird
- Gypsy Girl in The Two Pigeons
- Hermia in The Dream
- Myrtha and Zulme Giselle
- Mitzi Caspar Mayerling
- Olga Anastasia
- Harlot Romeo and Juliet
- Winter Fairy in Cinderella
- Lescaut’s Mistress Manon
- Mercedes Don Quixote
- The third movement of Concerto
- Swan Lake
- Aeternum
- After the Rain
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References
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