Royal Ballet School announces online Summer Intensive course We are excited to announce that for the first time, The Royal Ballet School will be offering an online Summer Intensive course this July. While we are disappointed not to be able to deliver our signature residential summer programmes at White Lodge and Covent Garden, our live […]
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Royal Ballet School becomes virtual school during lockdown On Monday 20 April, The Royal Ballet School reopened for the Summer Term as a virtual school, with Artistic and Academic classes and Healthcare and Pastoral support all moving online. Artistic and Academic Our students, at home in 23 different countries, began receiving a timetable of live
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Royal Ballet School leads choreographic response to pandemic lockdown Six international ballet schools are working with choreographer Didy Veldman to explore the theme of physical restriction in a project led by The Royal Ballet School. The School has invited San Francisco Ballet School, Canada’s National Ballet School, Paris Opera Ballet School, The Royal Danish Ballet
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Q&A for dance teachers during lockdown On our social media channels, we gave dance teachers the chance to ask questions to Head of Training & Access, Mark Annear and Teacher Training Manager, Karen Berry. Below is the transcription of this Q&A session, which includes advice for ballet teachers on remote teaching, supporting your students and
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Royal Ballet School visits Belfast with Melissa Hamilton for Insight Weekend On Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 February 2020, The Royal Ballet School returned to Belfast for the annual Insight Weekend. The weekend was designed to offer aspiring young dancers aged 7 to 18 years old an insight into The Royal Ballet School’s System of
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Royal Ballet School students perform at Prix de Lausanne 2020 On 8 February 2020, a group of our 3rd Year students were invited to the Prix de Lausanne 2020 in Montreux, Switzerland, to give an interlude performance. The students performed Larina Waltz by Ashley Page and excerpts from Rhapsody by Frederick Ashton on day 6
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Creative Artist talk from Arabella Dorman On Thursday 23 January 2020 award-winning war artist Arabella Dorman visited Upper School to deliver an incredible presentation as part of the Creative Artist Programme. For the past decade, Arabella has been working in Iraq and Afghanistan and more recently with refugees in Lesbos, Calais and Dunkirk. In her
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Royal Ballet School students perform at the Winter Youth Olympics On Thursday 9 January 2020, 14 2nd Year students had the incredible experience of performing in the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. The students performed a short section from Didy Veldman’s piece Is to Be that she created for
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Alumni David Bintley and Kate Flatt receive Knighthood and OBE We are proud to announce David Bintley and Kate Flatt have both received recognition for their commitments to dance in Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year’s Honours List. David Bintley CBE David Bintley received a Knighthood from The Queen for services to dance. David
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Farewell to our Chairman It is with a heavy heart that we say farewell to our Chairman, the Duchess of Wellington after a remarkable and successful 10 years of leading the governing body at The Royal Ballet School. On Tuesday 10 December, the whole school assembled at White Lodge to celebrate the Chairman’s incredible work
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