Our 2021 graduates: where are they now? As we wave farewell to this year’s graduates, we’ve been taking a look back at our 2021 graduates and celebrating their successes in their first professional year. Eleanora Ancona Eleanora joined the Upper School in 2019 from Italy. While at the School, she won prizes for her dissertation

Darcey Bussell films at White Lodge for Royal Road Trip Our alumna Dame Darcey Bussell has recently fronted a new four-part series for More4 in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. In the programme, she travels to several locations across the UK that are significant to the Queen and her history. She also discovers

Alumni return to White Lodge for celebration On Friday 17 June a special event was held at White Lodge for alumni of The Royal Ballet School. We were delighted to welcome back 165 of our former students, all of whom attended the School before 1980. The event was hosted by our Chairman, Christopher Rodrigues CBE.

Alumnus Christopher Wheeldon wins Tony Award for Best Choreography Congratulations to alumnus Christopher Wheeldon, who has won a Tony Award for Best Choreography for the musical MJ. Christopher trained at White Lodge and Upper School and was awarded the Ursula Moreton Emerging Choreographer Award in 1990. He joined The Royal Ballet in 1991. In 1993,