Kevin Emerton

English dancer Kevin Emerton is a First Artist of The Royal Ballet. He trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into the Company in 2007, promoted to First Artist in 2014.

Emerton was born in Preston and trained at Elmhurst School of Dance before entering The Royal Ballet Upper School. He has competed in many international competitions including the Young British Dancer of the Year and the Adeline Genée International Ballet Competition, and in 2006 won the Baines-Hewitt Award.

Emerton's repertory with the Company includes Soldier, Russian Dance and Chinese Dance (The Nutcracker), peasant pas de six (Giselle) and roles in Scènes de ballet, Manon, Voluntaries, Asphodel Meadows, Sylvia, La Sylphide, Rhapsody, The Sleeping Beauty, DGV: Danse à grande vitesse and Tryst. He has created roles in Rushes – Fragments of a Lost Story, Sweet Violets, ‘Trespass’ (Metamorphosis: Titian 2012) and The Age of Anxiety.