Paul Kay

English dancer Paul Kay is a Soloist of The Royal Ballet. He trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into the Company in 2003, promoted to First Artist in 2005 and Soloist in 2008. He left the Company in 2022 to take up the post of Artistic Manager for Intensive Courses and Auditions with The Royal Ballet School. 

Kay was born in Oxford and trained with Gaynor Walters in Devon before entering The Royal Ballet School, White Lodge. In his graduation year he danced the Flower Festival at Genzano pas de deux. Kay’s repertory with the Company includes Hans-Peter/Nutcracker (The Nutcracker), Magician/The Mad Hatter (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), Bronze Idol (La Bayadère), Kolia (A Month in the Country), Squirrel Nutkin (The Tales of Beatrix Potter), Blue Boy (Les Patineurs), George Robertson Sinclair (Enigma Variations), Puck (The Dream), Alain (La Fille mal gardée), Gypsy Boy (The Two Pigeons), Bratfisch (Mayerling), Jester (Cinderella) and in Ceremony of Innocence, Judas Tree, Manon, Napoli divertissements, Chroma, Carbon Life and Aeternum. 

Kay has created roles in Wayne McGregor’s Qualia, Infra, Acis and Galatea, Raven Girl, Tetractys, Woolf Works, Yugen, Acis and Galatea (Royal Opera), Obsidian Tear, Multiverse and The Dante Project, Christopher Wheeldon’s DGV: Danse à grande vitesse and Kim Brandstrup’s Rushes – Fragments of a Lost Story.