Julian Hosking (1953-1989) was a British ballet dancer and a former principal dancer with the

Royal Ballet The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in ...

. Hosking was born in Cornwall of a Viennese mother and Cornish father. He entered White Lodge aged 11 and progressed to the

Royal Ballet School The Royal Ballet School is a British school of classical ballet training founded in 1926 by the Anglo-Irish ballerina and choreographer Ninette de Valois. The school's aim is to train and educate outstanding classical ballet dancers, especially ...

.Biographical note in Royal Opera House programme booklet, 17 November 1984. Joining the company in 1970, he danced a wide range of roles across the Royal Ballet repertoire at Covent Garden from 1971 to 1986. These included leads in

Kenneth MacMillan Sir Kenneth MacMillan (11 December 192929 October 1992) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer who was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977, and its principal choreographer from 1977 until his death. Ea ...

's 1979 '' La Fin du jour'' and his 1980 ''

Gloria Gloria may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Christian liturgy and music * Gloria in excelsis Deo, the Greater Doxology, a hymn of praise * Gloria Patri, the Lesser Doxology, a short hymn of praise ** Gloria (Handel) ** Gloria (Jenkins) ...

'' for the Royal Ballet. He became a Principal in 1980. He also danced in the premieres of ''Manon'', ''Four Schumann Pieces'', and ''Consort Lessons'', and the first performances by the Royal Ballet of ''Liebeslieder Walzer'', '' My Brother, My Sisters'' and ''Return to the Strange Land''. In 1983, Hosking danced a lead role in

Glen Tetley Glen Tetley (February 3, 1926 – January 26, 2007) was an American ballet and modern dancer as well as a choreographer who mixed ballet and modern dance to create a new way of looking at dance, and is best known for his piece ''Pierrot Lunaire ...

's ''Dances of Albion: Dark Night Glad Day'', and

Anna Kisselgoff Anna Kisselgoff (born 12 January 1938) is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for ''The New York Times''. She began at the ''Times'' as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she h ...

writing in the ''

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'' called him "the hero of the evening". Hosking took time away from the Royal Ballet from 1975 to 1977 to study Egyptology and art in Italy with the artist,

André Durand André Durand (born 1947 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian painter working in the European Hermetic tradition. He is influenced by artists such as Rubens, Titian, Michelangelo and Velázquez. Although Durand is perhaps best known for his al ...

. Hosking who lived with Durand for eight years, was the subject of many paintings, the artist painted, both mythological (Miracles and Metamorphous) and portraits. He may be seen as

Edward Gordon Craig Edward Henry Gordon CraigSome sources give "Henry Edward Gordon Craig". (born Edward Godwin; 16 January 1872 – 29 July 1966), sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, director and ...

(a role he created) in the television filmed version of ''

Isadora Isidora or Isadora is a female given name of Greek origin, derived from Ἰσίδωρος, ''Isídōros'' (a compound of Ἶσις, ''Ísis'', and δῶρον, ''dōron'': "gift of he goddessIsis"). The male equivalent is Isidore. The name surviv ...

'' from 1982 (issued on DVD in 2011 by Odeon Entertainment, with the 1968 feature film

) and as Paris in the 1984 Royal Ballet film of ''

Romeo and Juliet ''Romeo and Juliet'' is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetim ...

''.WorldCat entry for Romeo and Juliet ballet film
accessed 5 January 2019.

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Gallery of photographs of Julian Hosking by André Durand
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hosking, Julian Principal dancers of The Royal Ballet British male ballet dancers 1953 births 1989 deaths Place of birth missing