Iohna Loots
Soloist, The Royal Ballet
Interviewed by David Bain
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, September 24
David introduced Iohna, saying how remiss it was not to have had her come to speak earlier since she had been in the Company for nine years.
Iohna was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. When tiny she used to potter around at the back while her mother took ballet classes instead of going to the gym. Between the ages of four and seven she also lived in Dusseldorf, Germany, where she had her first ballet classes. On return to South Africa she continued normal classes until about There is no equivalent to the Royal Ballet School in South Africa; she went to a high school which offered ballet classes as an optional subject for the last five years of education.
Given Iohna’s non-specialist early training, David Bain raised the current debate about why we are not producing dancers in this country. Maybe we should get rid of the Royal Ballet junior school, seen by some as elitist, and instead to put the money into ordinary schools. Iohna said that was a hard question for her to answer as she had not been at White Lodge. She remembered going to London for the first ti
IOHNA LOOTS
Iohna was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After competing at the Prix de Lausanne, aged 16, she received a scholarship from Dame Merle Park to attend the Royal Ballet School.
While at school, she was privileged to be in the Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella productions. Other highlights included working with William Tuckett on Tchaikovsky’s Overture for the Royal Ballet’s Winter Gala, creating the lead girl in Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Schubertiade,’ and working on a documentary for the Balanchine Foundation with Dame Alicia Markova.
After graduating, Iohna joined Cape Town City Ballet. Here, as a young dancer, she enjoyed the benefits of working in a smaller company, dancing in all the productions, notably the lead girl in Choo San Goh’s Configurations and Schubert Symphony, and Michaela in Veronica Paeper’s Carmen.
She subsequently spent 13 years with the Royal Ballet in Covent Garden. Iohna performed all the classical repertoire as a soloist and worked with world renowned choreographers like Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon, Liam Scarlett, David Bintley, Jacob Godani, and Will Tuckett. Iohna found great joy dancing the Ashton a
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