Summer Performance spotlight: Vanessa Palmer on Les Patineurs Former alumna of the School, Vanessa Palmer joined The Royal Ballet in 1989 before later moving up the ranks to Soloist and Assistant Ballet Mistress. She was awarded an I.S.T.D Fellowship and has completed the RAD Benesh Movement Notation for Ballet course. In 2019, Vanessa was asked […]
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The Royal Ballet School announces its 2025 Summer Performances The Royal Ballet School’s annual Summer Performances are a highly anticipated event on the School calendar and the pinnacle of the passion and dedication that our remarkable students apply to their training throughout the year. Ranging in age from 11 to 19, students from White Lodge
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Behind the choreography: Didy Veldman’s TooT In 2008, Didy Veldman choreographed a contemporary piece for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, featuring a cast of 20 clownlike dancers. Sixteen years later, after re-staging for Introdans and Ballet Leipzig, students of The Royal Ballet School will perform the theatrical work for our 2024 Summer Performance season.
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The Royal Ballet School announces its 2024 Summer Performances The Royal Ballet School’s Summer Performances are the highlight of the School calendar and a showcase of the extraordinary dedication and passion our students apply to their training throughout the year. Students from White Lodge and Upper School will showcase their talent in an eight-show season
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In conversation with Mikaela Polley on Fast Blue – a new dynamic classical work Performed on the magnificent Opera Holland Park and Royal Opera House stages, The Royal Ballet School’s Summer Performances are the highlight of the School year. We sat down with Choreographic Course Coordinator and Tutor Mikaela Polley to discuss her upcoming new
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Behind MacMillan’s The Four Seasons with choreologist Giacomo Bevilacqua Kenneth MacMillan’s 1975 piece The Four Seasons will be performed by our talented 1st and 2nd Year Upper School students in the upcoming Summer Performance season at Opera Holland Park and the Royal Opera House. Our students have had the pleasure of learning from expert choreologist
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The highlight of our year — Summer Performances repertoire announced Our annual Summer Performances are a chance for students to learn how to prepare mentally and physically for the stage, how to transform the ballet vocabulary they’ve been mastering into a magical experience for the audience, and have the special opportunity to see themselves in
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The Royal Ballet School’s partnership with Kinoshita Group The Royal Ballet School is delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration with Kinoshita Group as Principal Corporate Sponsors of The Royal Ballet School, alongside the continuation of their generous student sponsorship of our Japanese dancers. This will see the Group join our longstanding corporate partners, Imagination,
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Reflections on our performances at Opera Holland Park From Wednesday 6 to Saturday 9 July, students from all years at White Lodge and Upper School performed 5 triumphant shows at beautiful Opera Holland Park. This was the first time the School had performed at the venue since 2019, and it’s safe to say the excitement
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Celebrating our 2022 Summer Performances Saturday 16 July saw our students take to the stage at the Royal Opera House for their final performance this academic year. It was an exuberant, emotional occasion as the whole School were able to perform together for the first time since 2019, in what Artistic Director Christopher Powney described
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