Philip Broomhead (1962–). British dancer, teacher and ballet master

Philip Broomhead trained at The Royal Ballet School and joined The Royal Ballet in 1981. He became a principal dancer in 1986 and performed a number of leading roles with the company, including Prince Siegfried, the Pas de quatre and the Pas de trois in Swan Lake, Prince Florimund and the Blue Bird in The Sleeping Beauty, Albrecht in Giselle, Solor in La Bayadère, Oberon in The Dream and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet. He also performed in Frederick Ashton’s Monotones, Enigma Variations, Les Patineurs, Birthday Offering, Daphnis and Chloë, Scènes de ballet, and A Wedding Bouquet; Michael Corder’s L’Invitation au voyage; Ferdinand in Rudolf Nureyev’s The Tempest; Glen Tetley’s Dances of Albion; Richard Alston’s Midsummer; George Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial and Rubies; Jirí Kylián’s Return to the Strange Land; Wayne Eagling’s Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus; Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, Le Baiser de la fée, Elite Syncopations and Song of the Earth; Ashley Page’s Pursuit; and David Bintley’s ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café. He joined Houston Ballet as a principal in 1991, dancing all the major roles, and later became ballet master in 2004, a position he held until 2011. Philip Broomhead also appeared as a guest artist with the Royal Swedish Ballet, Scottish Ballet, and regional ensembles in the United States of America. He is currently director of the Orlando Ballet School.