Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg have announced they will leave The Royal Ballet at the end of the 2012/13 season to pursue other artistic challenges. Their last performance at the Royal Opera House as members of The Royal Ballet will be in Mayerling on 5 June.
They will then go to Tokyo with the company as planned and dance for the last time with the Royal Ballet on 10 and 12 July.
While surely the announcement has little to do with Natalia Osipova’s arrival next season, with the loss of principals Mara Galeazzi and Leanne Benjamin who are retiring in the next couple of months, it will leave a lot more pointe shoes empty than Osipova will be able to fill.… [continue reading]
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