Reece Clarke

Photo: James Anastasi.

Reece Clarke was raised in Airdrie, Scotland, where he and his three older brothers trained at the Janis Ridley School of Dance before joining the Royal Ballet School. He entered the Royal Ballet School’s White Lodge in 2006 – the first time in the School’s history that four boys from the same family had all trained at the School.  Clarke graduated into The Royal Ballet during the 2013-14 Season, and was promoted to First Artist in 2016, Soloist in 2017, First Soloist in 2020, and to Principal in 2022. His awards include Young British Dancer of the Year in 2012, the Lynn Seymour Award in 2013, and the Emerging Artist Award at the 2016 National Dance Awards.

Clarke’s repertoire with The Royal Ballet include Woyzeck in Different Drummer, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, The Prince in Cinderella, Colonel ‘Bay’ Middleton in Mayerling, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, Onegin in Onegin, Albrecht in Giselle, Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty, Prince in The Nutcracker, Young Man in The Two Pigeons, Aminta in Sylvia, Polixenes and Antigonus in The Winter’s Tale, Dr. Samuel-Jean Pozzi in Strapless, Officer in Anastasia, Des Grieux in Manon, Dr. John Brown in Like Water for Chocolate, and principal roles in Les Rendezvous, Scènes de ballet, DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse, Symphonic Variations, After the Rain, Monotones II, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Dances at a Gathering, “Diamonds” in Jewels, Within the Golden Hour, Corybantic Games, and In Our Wishes, as well as roles in Carbon Life and Obsidian Tear. He created roles in Robert Binet’s Dark with Excessive Bright, Charlotte Edmonds’s Meta, and Liam Scarlett’s Symphonic Dances.  Clarke has also performed as a guest artist with La Scala, The Tokyo Ballet, National Ballet of Georgia, and in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Clarke is making his American Ballet Theatre debut in 2024, dancing Solor in The Kingdom of the Shades.