Kevin O’Hare, new Director of The Royal Ballet will be giving an evening talk at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London in May to discuss his career and future vision for The Royal Ballet company.
Appointed in July 2012, O’Hare was first trained at The Royal Ballet School before stepping into Dame Monica Mason’s Director-ship shoes of The Royal Ballet many years later, following her retirement. After his stint at The Royal Ballet School, O’Hare went on to train through an exchange programme with the Royal Danish Ballet. He then joined the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet as it was then known and was promoted to Principal in 1990: it has since become Birmingham Royal Ballet.
During O’Hare’s performing career, his repertory included leading classical roles and works by esteemed choreographers such as George Balanchine, John Cranko & Hans Van Manento in addition to numerous international guest appearances, he also created many performing roles.
O’Hare retired as a dancer in 2000 in order to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, training in company management. He returned to BRB as Company Manager in 2001, joining The Royal Ballet as Company Manager in 2004. In 2009, O’Hare became Administrative Director with 2012 marking his progression to Direction of the company. In addition to being a governor of The Royal Ballet School O’Hare has never stepped out of the performing arts sector and it has certainly paid off, as his audience in May will find out first-hand.
A little known fact about Kevin is as a child he appeared in Bugsy Malone alongside Jodie Foster. Dancewear Central would like to take this opportunity to wish him continued success in his new role, maybe we may see him in more films in the future?