London City Ballet announces tour and dancers for 2025 season

The Artistic Director of London City Ballet, Christopher Marney, has announced the company’s full touring plans for its 2025 season, as well as the full company of dancers.

The programme for the tour and Sadler’s Wells Theatre will include works by Alexei Ratmansky, George Balanchine, by permission of the Balanchine Trust, Liam Scarlett and Florent Melac.

The season will be rounded off by the company making its debut at the Linbury Theatre, as part of the Royal Ballet and Opera’s 2025/26 season, performing the London premiere of Jerome Robbins’ Quiet City and a new work by Tasha Chu.

Returning to the company, the dancers are Alina Cojocaru, Alejandro Virelles, Joseph Taylor, Nicholas Vavrečka, Arthur Wille, Jimin Kim and Cira Robinson.

They will be joined by new company members Samuele Barzaghi (formerly Paris Opera Ballet), Yuria Isaka (former soloist at Staatsballett Berlin), Sahel Flora Pascual (formerly School of American Ballet, Ballet Austin), Constance Devernay-Laurence (former Principal at Scottish Ballet/TV actress), Josue Gomez (formerly Birmingham Royal Ballet), Pilar Ortega (formerly Joffrey Ballet Studio Company, Indianapolis Ballet), Siméon Sorange-Félicité (formerly Conservatoire de Paris) & Lydia Rose Hough (formerly English National Ballet School)

Last year in the company’s first season back after 30 years it became a UK Theatre Awards nominee for ‘Achievement in Dance’ and DanceEurope’s Critics Choice for Best Company, New Name to Watch, Best Director & Best Revival for Kenneth MacMillan’s Ballade.

London City Ballet – Tour dates 2025 & 2026

Portugal, Sintra Festival, June 28-29
Blackpool, Grand July 12
Surrey, Grange Park Opera ‘A Gala of British Ballet’ (excerpts) July 13
Oxford, New Theatre July 16-17
Bath, Theatre Royal July 24-26
Birmingham, Rep July 29-30
Biarritz, France, Festival Le Temps d’aimer la danse 8 September
London, Sadler’s Wells Theatre September 13-14
Athens, Greece, details to be announced soon
Reims, France, Opéra de Reims 1 October
Saint-Germain en Laye, France, Théâtre Alexandre Dumas 4 October
Mérignac, France, Le Pin Galant 7 October
La Ciotat, France, La Chaudronnerie 9 October
Salon de Provence, France, Théâtre Armand 11 October
Romans-sur-Isère, France, Romans Scènes 14 October
Istres, France, L’Usine 16 October
Santander, Spain, Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria 25 October
York, Theatre Royal November 14-15
London, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House 19-22 November