Francesca Hayward
Francesca Hayward is a Kenyan-born English ballet dancer and actress, the daughter of an English father and a Kenyan mother. She is a principal dancer in the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in London. At the age of two, she moved to the Goring-by-Sea suburb of Worthing in West Sussex to live with her grandparents. She started ballet at age 3, after her grandparents bought her a video of The Nutcracker. When she was young, she danced at Le Serve School of Ballet and Theatre Dance in Worthing until her teacher encouraged her to audition to White Lodge, the junior section of the Royal Ballet School. After being a Junior Associate from the age of nine, she entered the School at the age of 11 in 2003, and progressed to the Royal Ballet Upper School in 2008. According to Hayward, due to an injury, she did not officially graduate, but received a certificate of attendance.
Like Water for Chocolate
as TitaA modern Mexican classic of magic realism provides the basis for The Royal Ballet’s new...
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Cats
as VictoriaA tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside...
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Audrey
as Audrey HepburnAn unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress...
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RB&O Live 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as AliceDistraught by her mother's refusal to allow her to meet gardener Jack, Victorian teenager Alice...
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The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)
as DancerThe Royal Ballet presents the world premiere of Cathy Marston's first work for the Company on...
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Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words
as JulietAs members of the feuding Capulet and Montague families, Romeo and Juliet should be sworn...
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The Nutcracker
as ClaraThe young Clara creeps downstairs on Christmas Eve to play with her favourite present – a...
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Woolf Works
as I Now, I Then / BecomingsThe first revival of Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych to music by Max...
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The Sun Is God
as uncredited1918 - A woman imagines her lover has returned from the horrors of war in France, remembering...
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The Royal Ballet: Mayerling
as Princess StephanieInspired by dark and gripping real life events, this Royal Ballet classic depicts the sexual and...
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The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern
as Principal Dancer (Golden Hour)Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour is based around seven couples separating and...
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Swan Lake
as Prince Siegfried's younger sisterThe Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and...
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Giselle
as Pas de sixThe peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is...
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Royal Ballet All-Star Gala
as uncreditedThe stars of the Royal Ballet perform a very special selection of the best of ballet. From the...
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The Nutcracker - Royal Ballet
as ClaraThe 2015 production of "The Nutcracker" by the Royal Ballet
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La Fille Mal Gardée (The Royal Ballet)
as HenFrederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is one of the choreographer's most...
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Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet
as Herself, Sugar Plum FairyThis Christmas, step into the magical world of The Nutcracker. For the first time in many years,...
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Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
as Dora Penny (Dorabella)From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown...
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