As a teenager, Edmonds had a three-year residency at the Royal Opera House. As the company's " young choreographer ", she spent three years learning everything she could at one of the world's biggest dance institutions.
As a teenager, Edmonds had a three-year residency at the Royal Opera House.
As the company's " young choreographer ", she spent three years learning everything she could at one of the world's biggest dance institutions.
With that kind of start, you'd expect Edmonds' career to have followed a predictable narrative, choreographing for the big ballet brands, maybe setting up her own company.
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As a teenager, Edmonds had a three-year residency at the Royal Opera House. As the company's " young choreographer ", she spent three years learning everything she could at one of the world's biggest dance institutions. With that kind of start, you'd expect Edmonds' career to have followed a predictable narrative, choreographing for the big ballet brands, maybe setting up her own company.
Her eclectic career – creating NFTs, adverts and films as well as for the stage – reveals a precarious industry moving in new directions At the age of 18, Charlotte Edmonds was such a promising choreographer ("astonishing", in the words of the Observer) that the Royal Ballet invented a whole new job for her. "It's mad to think that happened," she says, a decade on.
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