Festive art at White Lodge Congratulations to Ellyne Knol (Year 10), who has won the White Lodge Christmas e-card competition with her festive painting of White Lodge in the snow, pictured above. The runner up was this merry and bright painting by Harriet Gibson (Year 9):   The following artworks were also shortlisted: Blake Smith (Year

Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance 2018 Congratulations to Sheung Yin Chan and Sacha Genet, joint winners of 2018 Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance. The Award took place on Thursday 22 November and was open to 2nd Year students. Each year the students are invited to perform a solo, which they select and prepare

Developing our approach to choreographic training This year, the School’s choreographic training has been developed to create a new approach to our three annual choreographic competitions. This comes as a result of a review led by Christopher Powney, Artistic Director, and involving an independent think-tank of prominent choreographers including David Bintley, Christopher Hampson, Russell Maliphant,

Ballet competition culture: are we putting young dancers at risk? A statement from Christopher Powney, Artistic Director of The Royal Ballet School Competitions have long been a platform where student dancers can enjoy positive experiences and learn from sharing with like-minded, passionate young people. Many top professionals speak of how competitions gave them life-changing opportunities

Robert Helpmann book launch On Wednesday 17 October, The Royal Ballet School hosted the book launch of a new Dance Books publication, Robert Helpmann: the Many Faces of a Theatrical Dynamo, edited by Richard Allen Cave and Anna Meadmore. Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) was a multi-talented Australian dancer, actor, choreographer and director of ballets, operas, dramas,

Happy #WorldBalletDay Our 2nd Year students joined the top ballet companies around the world to feature in the fifth ever World Ballet Day live stream event yesterday. World Ballet Day was a 20-hour live stream from The Royal Ballet, The Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet and guest companies from across the world. The live stream provided viewers the exclusive opportunity

Inspire to be: an inspiring new teachers’ CPD series Teachers will soon have access to a brand new series of CPD days run by The Royal Ballet School as part of our Inspire programme. Inspire to be follows on from our popular Inspire seminars, and offers teachers the chance to observe a ballet class in action while

New: Insight Days coming to Belfast and Dundee The Royal Ballet School is coming to Northern Ireland and Scotland this autumn with four events aimed at giving young dancers an insight into our world-renowned training. We’re inviting students aged 7 to 17, their parents and dance teachers to attend one of two Insight Days in

Summer Intensives 2018 Thank you to all of the students who attended out Summer Intensive Courses at White Lodge and the Upper School this summer. This year we welcomed more than 530 students from around the world to train at The Royal Ballet School. During the first two weeks students were taught by The Royal