Outstanding achievements Congratulations to the following primarySTEPS children who have successfully auditioned for places on The Royal Ballet School’s Junior Associate Programme, which they will begin in September 2015: Amina Secka and Taliyah Frimpong: from Dagenham Joseph McGregor: from Blackpool Amber Heatrick and Jack Cook: from Bury St Edmunds Congratulations also to Samuel Ratford from […]

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Jun 15 2015

Year 8 boys visit Strathmore School

Community and outreach, School life

Today our Year 8 boys were invited to spend the afternoon at Strathmore School, a community special school for pupils aged between 7-19 who have severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties. They joined Strathmore students of all ages in a range of different activities from role-play pretending to be astronauts, through to cooking and gardening.

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May 22 2015

primarySTEPS: Coming up in the summer term:

Community and outreach

Graduation performance All Level 3 classes are currently busy creating and rehearsing dances to perform at the Year 6 Graduation performance on Saturday 30 May at The Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden, alongside guest dancers from the Place Centre for Advanced Training and 3Volution dance group from King Edward VI School in Bury St

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May 21 2015

Open Day and Summer Fair 2015

Community and outreach, School life

Our annual Open Day and Summer Fair will take place at White Lodge, Richmond Park, on Saturday 13 June. We are pleased to announce that this year the event will be opened by alumna of the School and Royal Ballet Principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson. We hope you can join us there.

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May 19 2015

Summer School 2015 guest teachers make star-studded line-up

Alumni news, Announcements, Community and outreach

We are pleased to announce a prestigious line-up of guest teachers at this year’s International Summer School: Follow the links for biog information White Lodge: Theo Dantes – Spanish dance teacher Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp OBE – Creative dance teacher Glenn Wilkinson – Contemporary dance teacher Covent Garden: Amanda Britton – Contemporary dance teacher Viviana Durante – Ballet

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Feb 16 2015

Advancing Creativity

Community and outreach, School life

Click photos to enlarge On Thursday and Friday evening last week we showcased two key strands of our work, the Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award and aDvANCE. These innovative projects provide opportunities for Royal Ballet School students to explore their creativity and develop skills creating original work. Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award This year nine 2nd

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Jan 30 2015

primarySTEPS new Level 1 intake

Announcements, Community and outreach

This January we welcomed the new Level 1 children to the after school classes in all five centres. Equal numbers of boys and girls took up the offer to join regular primarySTEPS dance classes in their area; they have settled in quickly and are already making great progress. Find out more about our work with

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Jan 12 2015

primarySTEPS are invited to The City of London Lord Mayor’s Childrens Christmas Party

Community and outreach

On Saturday 10 January, four lucky pupils from the primarySTEPS programme in Dagenham were invited to The City of London Lord Mayor’s Annual Childrens Christmas Party. On arrival at Manor House, each of the 300 Children invited to the party, were received by the Lord Mayor and Mayoress before enjoying some entertainment in the Egyptian Hall.

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Jul 23 2014

aDvANCE 2013/14 projects

Community and outreach, School life

In October 2013 the Royal Ballet School first year students began a collaborative project with students from The Brit School. In keeping with the aims of aDvANCE, this project enabled students of The Royal Ballet Upper School and The BRIT School to share skills and learn from the differences in their respective dance training. Both institutions

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Jun 11 2014

We invite schools to take part in a collaborative dance project

Community and outreach, School life

We are delighted to invite secondary schools, colleges and youth groups to apply to work on a project with The Royal Ballet School. This innovative dance project is designed to link A Level and BTEC dance students and selected London Secondary Schools with young dancers of a similar age at The Royal Ballet School. The projects are creative collaborations for a group of pupils who

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