{"id":37211,"date":"2019-09-25T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T09:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=37211"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:33:52","slug":"harrison-james-wins-rolex-dancers-first-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/harrison-james-wins-rolex-dancers-first-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison James Wins Rolex Dancers First Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karen Kain<\/strong>, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada announced that Principal Dancer <strong>Harrison James<\/strong> is the recipient of the 2019 Rolex <em>Dancers First<\/em> Award. The award was presented by Ms. Kain and <strong>Maxim Lamarre<\/strong>, President and CEO, Rolex Canada Ltd., at a dinner and presentation in Toronto.\u00a0The Rolex <em>Dancers First<\/em> Award recognizes outstanding performances in the previous season and is juried by a committee of members of the National Ballet\u2019s Artistic Staff. Mr. James was recognized for the dramatic power, impeccable technique, intense musicality and artistic authenticity in his outstanding performances as Alexei Vronsky in <em>Anna Karenina<\/em>, Oberon in <em>The Dream<\/em> and the title role in <em>Apollo<\/em>. At the ceremony, Mr. James was presented with a specially engraved Rolex watch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37212\" style=\"width: 673px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/James.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/James.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/James-300x362.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/James-600x723.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/James-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harrison James Photo The National Ballet of Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since its inception, Rolex has encouraged individual excellence and the pursuit of perfection. In keeping with this long tradition, Rolex continues to contribute to the arts world through its various sponsorship activities. Rolex Canada has generously sponsored the Rolex<em> Dancers First<\/em> Award since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada announced that Principal Dancer Harrison James is the recipient of the 2019 Rolex Dancers First Award. The award was presented by Ms. Kain and Maxim Lamarre, President and CEO, Rolex Canada Ltd., at a dinner and presentation in Toronto.\u00a0The Rolex Dancers First Award recognizes outstanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37215,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37211\/revisions\/37215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}