Igone de Jongh
In short
joined Dutch National Ballet 1997
birth place Haarlem (The Netherlands)
career with Dutch National Ballet
principal (2003),
second soloist (2002),
grand sujet (2000),
coryphée (1999),
corps de ballet (1998),
élève (1997)
training
National Balletacademy (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Royal Ballet School (London, United Kingdom)
awards
2003, Alexandra Radius Award,
2002, Incentive Prize Dansersfonds '79,
1995, Arnold Haskell Award 1995,
biography
Igone de Jongh (Haarlem) is the only dancer currently working with the Dutch National Ballet who has gone through all the ranks: from aspirant in 1996 to her promotion – at the age of only 24 – to principal in 2003. Igone trained at the National Ballet Academy in Amsterdam and the Royal Ballet School in London. During her training, she won the Arnold Haskell Award, and later the Incentive Prize 2002 from Stichting Dansersfonds’79 and the Alexandra Radius Prize 2003. Igone is known both for her exceptional interpretations of the classical ballet repertoire and for being the muse of choreographer Hans van Manen. The magazine Dance Europe recently placed her in the top 100 international dancers, partly on the basis of her performance in one of Van Manen’s ballets. A son, Hugo, was born to Igone and former soloist Mathieu Gremillet in 2010.