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Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Professioanl Ballet Dancer
Location	Northern Ireland, London, Scotland, United Kingdom
Introduction	Leigh Alderson (born 1986) is a male ballet dancer, model and actor from Portadown, Northern Ireland. Leigh trained at the Royal Ballet School in London for eights years training. Alderson received several awards including The Lynn Seymour Award For Most Expressive Dancer 2004, The Royal Ballet School Achievement Award 2005, The NJL Sponsored Award For Choreographic Development 2005 and The Royal Ballet School Achievement Award 2006. Alderson was also nominated for 2 consecutive years for Arts Personality of The Year 2009/10 for the Ulster Tatler: People Of The Year Award. After graduating in 2006 and up to 2008, Alderson danced with the Scottish Ballet. In 2008, Alderson signed a contract with new ballet company New English Contemporary Ballet Alderson was then offered a contract with Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada
Interests	WWW.LEIGHALDERSON.COM WWW.TWITTER.COM/LEIGHALDERSON5
Favorite movies	Documentaries, Film and TV The BBC produced three documentary films about him, the first, Lost To Dance broadcast in October 1998, the second A God Given Gift in September 2005, and the third, also A God Given Gift in December 2007. All Directed and Produced by documentary film maker Clare DeLargy. The 2007 biography of Fredrick Franklin notes Franklin's involvement with Alderson and his involvement in Alderson's 2005 and 2007 BBC documentaries Alderson began filming the independent film 'Angel' in June 2009 with co-star ballet dancer Kyle Davey. The film features the score of Scottish singer, Jerry Burns and is directed by David Council. The Film had its premiere screening in The Market Place Theatre at The Stars Of The Arts Gala 2010 on June 19. An Official trailer was released in July for a limited time only to mark its impending release onto Itunes worldwide. In July 2009, it was announced that Leigh Alderson would be attached as a featured Dancer in Vertigo Films, StreetDance that commenced shooting mid August 2009 and is to be released in May 2010. The Film subsequently became #1 at the UK Boxoffice. Alderson was the featured artist on BBC's Arts and Culture Series Art Space. Alderson was featured in the sixth and final episode of season one which was telelvised on Wednesday the 2nd of June 2010 on BBC1.
Favorite music	In The Spring of 2011 , Alderson released his second single track 'Taking The Risk' his most successful single to date. A more commercial sounding dance track. The Single was originally released as an instrumental single, but was promised to include a vocal version on what would be Aldersons 3rd Album/ Collection, 'Curly Disco'. The Second single release from this album was ' I Felt Space, Or So I Thought' which was dealt with in the same way as 'Taking The Risk', released as a dance instrumental but also having a vocal version. 'I Felt Space Or So I Thought' which went live on iTunes on the 18th of August 2011. The song was the official song used to promote a brand new club in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was subsequently used in all of their promotional video footage. The title track 'Curly Disco' made its first official radio play on June 16th 2011 with DJ Marc 'Bones' LeBlanc during his show on RADIO-J 93.5. Broadcasting in the East Coast of Canada.[7] 'Curly Disco' was stated on leighalderson.com to be a winter 2011 release. with the first music video being directed by Canadian Film maker Joël A. Robichaud and being released through Swing House Promotions
Favorite books	Books And Published Material In 2007 , Leslie Norton published a biography of Fredrick Franklin and documented Franklin's involvement with Alderson and his 2005 and 2007 BBC documentaries. The book made available in all good bookstore and also available to purchase online. In 2009, whilst still a dancer with New English Contemporary Ballet, Alderson featured in Jim Rowbothams' photography book 'Strictly Ballet'. In 2010, French Author Sebastien Simoni dedicated his latest novel, Labyrinthik to Alderson. The French horror novel went on sale in September 2010. In 2011 Karin Pritzels, award winning picture of Alderson 'Flight Of Freedom' was selected to be included in a new book which was a collection of art and famous inspiring quotes. The Book 'Quoted Moments' was launched in July of 2011 and in association with the Irish Cancer Society.