The RDB has posted changes to the company for next season.

Principals:

- Rose Gad and Silja Schandorff have retired; Schandorff is now listed as an
Instruktør

Soloists:

- as is already widely known, Jodie Thomas joins from Pacific Northwest Ballet
- Kizzy Howard is now Kizzy Matiakis

Corps de ballet joiners:

- Caroline Baldwin (won a scholarship to the RDB school at YAGP 2008)
- Carling Talcott (SAB, MCB apprentice)
- Alexandra lo Sardo (RBS, Dresden Ballet)

- Mads Eriksen returns to the company after a couple of seasons' absence

New Aspirants:

- Oda Grøner (Norwegian, just graduated from the RBS)
- Andreas Kaas (RDB school)
- Oscar Nillson (RDB School)

The name change for Kizzy Howard would indicate she and Tim have formally tied the knot. Congratulations to both of them.

Jodie Thomas makes her debut as an RDB member tonight in the fourth movement of Symphony in C, which forms part of a preview of the new season's opera and ballet productions, given in the open air at the Rosenborg Eksercerplads in Copenhagen and also transmitted live on a big screen in the city centre. She'll be dancing with Ulrik Birkkjaer.

Also included is an extract from Jerome Robbins's West Side Story Suite, wih a cast including Gitte Lindstrøm as Anita.

What has happend to Eliza Mullholland and Anna Kuran?
They were listed as aspirants i think

Interesting factoid from the interview w/ Nikolaj Hubbe in the August/September issue of Pointe -- 40% of the RDB's 98 dancers are foreign (including a dozen from North America.)

Make of it what you will . . .