Lowri Shone (born 5 April 1996) is an

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

ballerina, and is training at

English National Ballet School English National Ballet School is a specialist classical ballet school based in London in the United Kingdom. The School was founded in 1988 by Peter Schaufuss as the official school of English National Ballet. The School's current Artistic Di ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. Lowri was born in

Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

on 5 April 1996. She has trained at Tring Park for four years. In 2010, Lowri performed the role of Clara with the

English National Ballet English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin as London Festival Ballet and based in London, England. Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish ...

at the London Coliseum in

Wayne Eagling Wayne Eagling (born 27 November 1950) is a Canadian ballet dancer, now retired. After more than twenty years as a popular member of The Royal Ballet in London, he became well known as an international choreographer and company director. Early li ...

's production of ''

The Nutcracker ''The Nutcracker'' ( rus, Щелкунчик, Shchelkunchik, links=no ) is an 1892 two-act ballet (""; russian: балет-феерия, link=no, ), originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaiko ...

''. Lowri had also previously performed in the

's previous production of ''The Nutcracker'', with a minor role. Lowri has also performed in various

London Children's Ballet The London Children's Ballet (LCB) is a registered charitable trust created in 1994. LCB was formed to give children the experience of performing as part of a company, in a professionally produced, full length ballet at a professional theatre. L ...

(LCB) productions such as The Scarlet Pimpernel,

The Secret Garden ''The Secret Garden'' is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in ''The American Magazine'' (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and ...

and Rumpelstiltskin, as well as performing the role of Petrova in LCB's 2010 production of

Ballet Shoes A ballet shoe, or ballet slipper, is a lightweight shoe designed specifically for ballet dancing. It may be made from soft leather, canvas, or satin, and has flexible, thin full or split soles. Traditionally, women wear pink shoes and men wear wh ...

Early life and education

Lowri is one of six children: Emma, Rhys, herself, Ciaran, Rowan and Nadja. Lowri started ballet at the age of 6 at the Sally Stanyard School of Dance in

. She obtained further training in

tap dance Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm (jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses on dance; it is widely perfo ...

, jazz dance and

contemporary dance Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in ...

at the Lewis Allsopp School of Dance, again in Winchester. At the age of 11, Lowri auditioned for dance schools and accepted a scholarship at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in 2007, forgoing a Mid-Associateship with the Royal Ballet. She has danced with several professional companies including the American Dance Theatre, Royal Northern Ballet and the English National Ballet. In 2010 she danced the role of Young Clara with the English National Ballet in the premier of Wayne Eagling's new version of ''The Nutcracker''. A role which she repeated in the 2011 run of the same production along with her brother, Rowan who played the part of Freddy (Fritz) alongside her, the first time siblings had assumed the role.

External links

The Nutcracker's new dancing starletOxford Times-The NutcrackerBallet Shoes Review
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shone, Lowri 1996 births Living people English ballerinas People from Winchester