James Stout
In short
joined Dutch National Ballet 2007
birth place Calgary (Canada)
career with Dutch National Ballet
second soloist (2012),
coryphée (2011),
corps de ballet (2008),
adspirant (2007)
training
Goh Ballet Academie (Vancouver, Canada),
Royal Ballet School (London, United Kingdom)
biography
The Canadian-British dancer James Stout (Calgary) got interested in dance through his parents’ Argentinian tango dance club. From an early age, he helped out as a dance partner at the milongas (dance evenings). He went on to take lessons in ballroom and ballet, among other things. At the age of thirteen, he went to the School of Alberta Ballet – “because they needed boys”. Later on, he trained with the Goh Ballet in Vancouver; a period of tough, completely Chinese-oriented training that he says formed him. The final year of James’s training was spent at The Royal Ballet School in London. Partly due to his great admiration for the former star principal Sofiane Sylve, James decided to join the Dutch National Ballet in 2007, where he was promoted to soloist this season. James succeeded in reaching the finals in ballet competitions in Varna, Hong Kong and Beijing.