A Port Moody secondary graduate is now a soloist with the San Francisco Ballet.
Last Saturday night, the renowned company announced via Facebook it had promoted Benjamin Freemantle from Corps de Ballet; fellow CdB member Lonnie Weeks also gained a higher post while soloist Wei Wang was upgraded to principal dancer.
The changes take effect next season.
The news came after the company’s performance of Robbins’ Ballet & Broadway Program 5.
Freemantle is a former student of the Caulfield School of Dance and the San Francisco Ballet School. He became an apprentice in 2014 and promoted to CdB in 2015.
Since then, he has danced featured roles in Tomasson’s Haffner Symphony (soloist); The Nutcracker (King of the Mice, Spanish, Arabian and Russian); and Swan Lake (Aristocrats, Spanish and Russian). He was also the principal dancer in Thatcher’s Manifesto and created a CdB role in Millepied’s The Chairman Dances.
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