DANCE NEWS:
Vanstone named NBOC principal dancer
13 JUN/11

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

TORONTO - Hot on the heels of her acclaimed performance in the North American première of Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, Jillian Vanstone is trading in her rank of first soloist with the National Ballet of Canada to become a principal dancer with the company.

Vanstone’s promotion was announced Monday by NBOC artistic director Karen Kain. In other troupe movements, Kain also promoted Elena Lobsanova, McGee Maddox, Robert Stephen and Brett van Sickle to the level of first soloists, while Naoya Ebe and Chelsy Meiss have been promoted to second soloists, from the corps de ballet.

Apprentices Skylar Campbell, Shaila D’Onofrio and Jackson Dwyer have been named to the corps.