Ravi Cannonier-Watson is an Artist of The Royal Ballet. Cannonier-Watson joined The Royal Ballet as an Aud Jebsen Young Dancer at the start of the 2024/25 season. He was promoted to Artist of The Royal Ballet in 2025.
Ravi was born in Bermuda. He began training, aged 8, at Bermuda's Russian School of Ballet, and later went onto train at The Royal Ballet School for a further eight years.
While at The Royal Ballet School, he was Head Boy in Year 11 at White Lodge, and was also awarded the Frank Freeman Summer scholarship in the same year. Roles while at the School include the male principal role in Paquita, Prince Ivan in the The Firebird and Don Quixote in Don Quixote.
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