Hope you're doing well! Just wanted to know your thoughts on Shale Wagman leaving a soloist position in Munich to go to POB? He will have to start again from the quadrille position and move through the ranks. However such a path ended up working well for Pagliero and Park, and POB has currently a deficit of male Étoiles (Heyman MIA, Ganio retiring I love Moreau but he's not exactly international star material). With only Louvet, Marchand, Marque and Diop they need someone else.
Hello Hello, I saw this move this summer and was thrilled! What a coup for POB! Of course the hierarchy of POB is what it is, but don't think he'll be sitting as a quadrille for very long. Your're correct that POB has had several other dancers not graduate from the school, join later and do very well for themselves and there certainly is a gap at the top. I'd love to see him dance with McIntosh or Battistoni sometime in the near future!
Shale Wagman dancer with English National Ballet & Evan McKie principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada rehearsing choreography by Juliano Nunes