In April 2015 a group of 3rd Year students travelled to New York City to meet, work and perform with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company as part of an ongoing exchange programme with the company. Here 3rd Year student Grace Horne documents an inspiring week in New York. Click photos to expand and see captions Day […]

We are deeply saddened to announce that Jocelyn Mather, former Principal of our Junior Associate programme, died last week after a short illness. Jocelyn was a highly respected member of the dance community and an instrumental member of The Royal Ballet School’s staff. As well as assisting the School’s Ballet Principal Barbara Fewster throughout the

Visitors were treated to an impressive display of young choreographic talent last night at our Ninette de Valois Junior Choreographic Award at White Lodge. This year a total of 31 entries from students in Years 7, 8 and 9 were shortlisted to just 14, which were performed in front of judges and audience members in

Click to enlarge Our 2015 Summer Season at the Royal Opera House will include five performance in the Linbury Studio Theatre from 1 to 4 July and will culminate in a matinée performance on the main stage on Sunday 12 July. Our main stage matinée will feature Frederick Ashton’s delightful Les Rendezvous as well as

Award-winning author Ali Sparkes visited Years 7, 8 and 9 students last week as part of our World Book Day celebrations. She spoke to the students about how she became a writer as well as discussing some of her books that have a sci-fi fantasy element, particularly her new title Dark Summer. Afterwards, she signed books

Click photos to enlarge   On Saturday 7 March we teamed up with three other leading UK ballet schools for an event at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre celebrating British dance training. Spring Celebration was a collaboration between Central School of Ballet, Elmhurst School for Dance, English National Ballet School and The Royal Ballet

On Sunday, Year 7 student Vlada, was a finalist in the Young Writers’ Awards organised by artsrichmond. Vlada’s poem, Snowflakes, was chosen from a selection submitted by our Year 7 students in December. She was among only three students in the Year 7 age range in the final. Vlada was awarded a Highly Commended certificate

This January we welcomed the new Level 1 children to the after school classes in all five centres. Equal numbers of boys and girls took up the offer to join regular primarySTEPS dance classes in their area; they have settled in quickly and are already making great progress. Find out more about our work with

Our 1st Year students took part in an energetic and inspiring rhythm workshop today with renowned Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale. The students were introduced to new beats and were asked to examine three complex rhythms and improvise to them, embodying them in relation to their ballet practice. The workshop helped them to learn to introduce the