Just wrapped — the first Junior Associate Insight Class Your young ballet dancer can apply to become a Junior Associate on 21 February. Our Junior Associate Programme is for students aged 8 to 10 who want to explore their passion and potential in pre-vocational classical ballet training. Based in nine centres across the UK, the course […]
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Madison Bailey on her role as Clara in The Nutcracker Madison Bailey started her journey with the School as a Junior Associate before joining White Lodge and then graduating from Upper School in 2019. She joined The Royal Ballet on the Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme and is now an Artist with the Company. This
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Junior Associates in Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite has been praised by The New York Times as ‘one of the most talented and intriguing choreographers working today’. In 2017, she created the stunning Olivier Award–winning one-act contemporary ballet piece, Flight Pattern, a moving exploration of the refugee crisis. Now, she has
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Dancers in Leeds can now access the full Senior Associate Programme We’re thrilled to be able to expand our world-class training in the unofficial capital of Yorkshire. For the past two years, we’ve been running short courses in Leeds that spanned six three-hour sessions over the school term. These comprehensive sessions extended and complemented the
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Workshops for our Associate students Last week we hosted several workshops for our Associate students. The workshops were held at Upper School and gave our Junior, Senior and Advanced Associates an exciting opportunity to attend the School and enhance their training with some new experiences. Â New Adventures and audition preparation On Monday 14 February
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Royal Ballet School Junior Associates’ Nutcracker workshop On 26 October, our Associate team hosted a workshop around The Nutcracker for our Junior Associates. 140 Junior Associates travelled from across the country to the Upper School in Covent Garden. In the morning our Junior Associates were treated to a demonstration of The Nutcracker by four members
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New Senior Associate Short Course in Leeds We are delighted to announce a new Senior Associate Short Course based at Yorkshire Dance, the School’s existing Associate Centre in Leeds. Starting in October 2021, the programme will offer selected students in Years 10 and 11 the opportunity to participate in a series of six Sunday classes
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Agnes Roboz 1926 – 2021 We were recently saddened to hear of the death of Hungarian choreographer and dance teacher, Agnes Roboz. Roboz taught summer programmes at The Royal Ballet School and was integral to the expansion of our Associate programmes to include the teaching of national dances. Her character work was also incorporated by
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Success for our first online Junior Associate Insight Days Between 16 and 18 February 2021 we held our first ever series of online Junior Associate Insight Days for those aged 8 to 10 years old. We were delighted that all classes sold out. In total 540 girls and 62 boys attended the Insight Days taught
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Livestream Q&A On Friday 13 January 2017 we held a livestream question and answer session with Head of Outreach and Access, Mark Annear and Associate Programme Manager Sylvia Hubbard, hosted on our Facebook page. They were answering questions sent in before and during the livestream, about the Junior Associate programme and our audition process. The
