Biography

South African dancer Camille Bracher is a former First Artist of The Royal Ballet. She joined the Company in 2010 after training privately in South Africa and was to promoted to First Artist in 2015. She left the Company in 2019.
Bracher grew up in Johannesburg and came to dance at a very early age through her mother, a contemporary dancer and choreographer. She trained privately with Martin Schonberg at Ballet Theatre Afrikan and aged 15 won the Outstanding Contemporary Dancer Award at the 2007 Youth America Grand Prix in New York. That year she also won the Junior Contemporary Division at the South African International Ballet Competition in Cape Town. In her final year at school she was awarded the second prize in the Junior Girls Division at the 2009 Helsinki International Ballet Competition.
Bracher’s repertory with The Royal Ballet included White Cat (The Sleeping Beauty), Entertainer (The Invitation) and roles in The Nutcracker, Onegin, Swan Lake, The Rite of Spring, Infra, Giselle and Scènes de Ballet. She created roles in Carbon Life, ‘Diana and Actaeon’ (Metamorphosis: Titian 2012) and Woolf Works. In summer 2012 she created a role in Hot House, part of One Big Stage with Gareth Malone and the Royal Opera House Learning and Participation Department.
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Photos
Camille Bracher and artists of The Royal Ballet in rehearsal for La Bayadère, World Ballet Day 2018

Camille Bracher

Camille Bracher and artists of The Royal Ballet in rehearsal for La Bayadère, World Ballet Day 2018

Yasmine Nagdhi and Matthew Ball in The Sleeping Beauty, The Royal Ballet

Camille Bracher in Draft Works, The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet in class, World Ballet Day 2018

The Royal Ballet in class, World Ballet Day 2018

Camille Bracher, Marcelino Sambé and Sander Blommaert in Woolf Works.

Camille Bracher and dancers of The Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet School in rehearsal for Giselle, The Royal Ballet

Camille Bracher in Sander Blommaert's L’Autre côté

Camille Bracher in Sander Blommaert's 'L’Autre côté'

Camille Bracher in Sander Blommaert's 'L’Autre côté'

The Royal Ballet in class, World Ballet Day 2018

The Royal Ballet in class, World Ballet Day 2018

Camille Bracher as an Entertainer in The Invitation, The Royal Ballet
