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What does it mean to be a first soloist in ballet?

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His first choreography for the Royal Ballet, was Fleur de Peux, a solo work created in 2000 on Viviana Durante. This led to further commissions by the Royal Ballet, including Symbiont(s) in 2001, Qualia in 2003 and Engram in 2005. read more

Typically, a ballet company in the United States offers five key positions to dancers auditioning for a part, which form a hierarchy within the company in terms of solos and critical acclaim: the principals or senior principals, then the soloists, the coryphées (first artists or junior soloists), the corps de ballet (artists), and the character artists. read more

In ballet, a soloist is a dancer in a ballet company above the corps de ballet but below principal dancer. read more

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