Welcoming Stuart Cassidy to The Royal Ballet School’s Artistic Staff We welcomed Stuart Cassidy to The Royal Ballet School’s Artistic Staff at Upper School this academic year. Stuart, who is an alumnus of the School, is one of four new ballet teachers who have joined the School across White Lodge and Upper School. Stuart has […]
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Acting workshops with Emma Flett We’re proud to have talented alumni working across all sectors and it’s always a pleasure to have them return to the School. Emma Flett trained with us before going on to have an extensive career in dance, theatre, musical theatre, and film creation. On 14 and 15 September, we welcomed
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Welcoming James Butcher to The Royal Ballet School’s Artistic staff This week, we welcomed four new ballet teachers to The Royal Ballet School’s Artistic faculty for the start of the 2023/24 academic year. James Butcher, a former student of The Royal Ballet School, has joined our Artistic staff as a ballet teacher, teaching Years 8
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A chat with Principal dancer and alumnus, Brandon Lawrence After a successful 12-years with Birmingham Royal Ballet, alumnus Brandon Lawrence bids farewell to the Company as he leaves to join Ballett Zürich in Cathy Marston’s first season as Director. Brandon attended the School from 2006 to 2011. In 2008 he received the Royal Academy of
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The Royal Ballet School welcomes four new Artistic staff We are excited to share that The Royal Ballet School will welcome four new highly-respected full-time Artistic teachers across White Lodge and Upper School in September. Larissa Bamber and James Butcher will join White Lodge’s teaching faculty, with Sarah Kundi and Stuart Cassidy joining the
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Alumni promotions 2023/24 It never ceases to make us proud to hear of our alumni’s wonderful achievements. We were delighted to hear that many of our alumni have received promotions in The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and Northern Ballet for the 2023/24 season. The Royal Ballet Mica Bradbury, Hannah Grennell, Joonhyuk
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In conversation with Ashley Killar Ashley Killar attended the School from 1954-1962. He began his professional career with John Cranko at Stuttgart Ballet, before becoming a founding member of Scottish Ballet and a Soloist with Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet. Post performing career, Ashley worked as a Ballet Master and later became the Artistic Director of
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A ‘pawsome’ visit from Dame Darcey Bussell DBE and Darcey the Guide Dog Yesterday was a memorable day for our White Lodge students as they welcomed not only one but two well-known Darceys into the School for a special visit! Renowned ballerina and alumna of the School Dame Darcey Bussell DBE visited White Lodge to
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50 years of John Neumeier at Hamburg Ballet Last week four Upper School students were given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform as part of the renowned John Neumeier’s 50th anniversary season at the Hamburg Ballet. Our students, accompanied by Artistic Director & CEO Christopher Powney and Ballet Teacher Paul Lewis, travelled to Hamburg to perform
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Honours for our alumni in King’s Birthday Honours Congratulations to our alumni Christopher Hampson and Russell Maliphant for receiving honours on the King’s Birthday Honours list for 2023. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of their services to dance and we were pleased to see the dance sector represented across the list. Christopher Hampson began training
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