Conor Walmsley
Photo: Jan Willem Kaldenbach

Conor Walmsley

Coryphée

CV

Place of Birth: 
Est Yorkshire, England


With Dutch National Ballet since: 
2017


Career with Dutch National Ballet: 
Coryphée (2022), Corps de Ballet (2020), Élève (2019), Junior Company, 2nd year (2018), 1st year (2017)


Training: 
Conor first started with musical theatre at age 12. Then soon decided he wanted to start ballet and began in his local city of Hull at 14 at the LWHS School of dance. Then at age 16 he began training at the English National Ballet School for one year - then moved to Amsterdam/Dutch National Ballet Academy where he had the chance to perform leading roles in repertoire by Neumeier, Dawson and Rudi van Dantzig. Conor trained here for two years. In January 2017 he joined the Junior Company to tour in part of the program Juniors go Dutch.