Royal Ballet School
Yasmine Naghdi, started her vocational training at The Royal Ballet School in 2004, she was a Royal Ballet School junior associate before joining The Royal Ballet School at White Lodge. During her training she was awarded "Most Outstanding Classical Dancer" at the age of 16. As a student, she worked with The Royal Ballet company and first appeared on the Royal Opera House stage, aged 11, in "Cinderella", aged 12 in "Swan Lake", and later on in Sleeping Beauty and "The Nutcracker". In September 2008 Yasmine Naghdi progressed into The Royal Ballet School's Senior Section/Upper School; in March 2009 she was awarded first prize in the "Young British Dancer of the Year" competition.