{"id":9727,"date":"2024-09-01T14:09:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/from-airdrie-town-hall-to-the-royal-opera-house\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T14:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:09:46","slug":"from-airdrie-town-hall-to-the-royal-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/from-airdrie-town-hall-to-the-royal-opera-house\/","title":{"rendered":"From Airdrie Town Hall to the Royal Opera House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Reece Clarke was four years old when he first performed at Airdrie Town Hall. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Now, the 29-year-old is returning to his hometown for a special performance as the Royal Ballet&#8217;s principal dancer. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;The stage seemed a lot bigger back then,&#8221; he says. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Reece left Scotland at 11 years old to train with his brothers at the Royal Ballet School in London &#8211; the first time in history that four boys from the same family trained there. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He said that the performance is a &#8220;big thank you&#8221; to the Airdrie community who were &#8220;so supportive&#8221; of him and his brothers. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve not performed in Scotland at all as a professional dancer,&#8221; Reece added. &#8220;It&#8217;s so special to be back.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cx2nwzjq3e1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reece Clarke was four years old when he first performed at Airdrie Town Hall. Now, the 29-year-old is returning to his hometown for a special performance as the Royal Ballet&#8217;s principal dancer. &#8220;The stage seemed a lot bigger back then,&#8221; he says. Reece left Scotland at 11 years old to train with his brothers at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[4926,672,697,3435,1639,957],"class_list":["post-9727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-airdrie","tag-hall","tag-house","tag-opera","tag-royal","tag-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9729,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727\/revisions\/9729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}