Students get creative for our Mindfulness and Resilience week This week students and staff across the School have been taking part in Mindfulness and Resilience week. During registration each day our students have tried a different mindfulness technique; from calming colouring to origami. There have also been ‘Gratitude Trees’ at both sites, where students and […]

Students dance with BRB at the Royal Albert Hall A group of our 3rd Year students are fortunate to be dancing in a very special production of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall this week. It is the first time Birmingham Royal Ballet has performed its festive ballet at the Royal Albert Hall

Winner of this year’s Christmas art competition announced Congratulations to Connie, Year 9, the winner of this year’s art competition to design a Christmas e-card. Our judges deliberating over this year’s entires   Each year the students from White Lodge enter designs for the School’s Christmas e-card. This year, from 62 entries, 33 images were shortlisted

Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award 2017 Congratulations to Anna Daly, winner of the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award 2017. This year’s Award took place on Tuesday 13 December at the Margot Fonteyn Studio Theatre, White Lodge and was open to Year 10 and 11 students. The students not only created eleven unique ballets, presented to an audience of

Merry and bright: Carol Service 2017 On Saturday 2nd December, we started the festive season in fine voice with our annual Christmas Carol Service at Christ Church in East Sheen. After a welcome from Christopher Powney, Artistic Director, the congregation enjoyed songs by the whole school choir and the Year 7, 8 and 9 choir,

Spring Intensive Hong Kong 2018: teachers announced   We are pleased to announce a prestigious line-up of Royal Ballet School teachers and guest teachers at our 2018 Spring Intensive in Hong Kong: Follow the links for biog information   Royal Ballet School Artistic team: Christopher Powney (Artistic Director) Samira Saidi (Head of Intensive Courses and International Relations)

Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance 2017 Congratulations to Kele Roberson, winner of 2017 Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance. The Award took place on Monday 13 November and was open to the 2nd Year students, who were invited to perform a solo of their choosing, prepared on their own and without any coaching. When explaining

Samira Saidi joins The Royal Ballet School in new post Renowned ballet educator and manager Samira Saidi will join the School on Thursday this week as Head of Intensive Courses and International Relations. In this newly-created role, Samira will lead on developing our intensive courses and will form an integral part of our continued drive

Nadia Nerina Scholar announced We are delighted to announce that the 2017-20 recipient of The Royal Ballet School Nadia Nerina Scholarship is Amir Shah. Amir, who is from Mumbai, India, joined the 1st Year (Upper School) at the start of this academic year. Not only is Amir the first Indian student to be awarded the