In review: 2026 Summer Performance at the Royal Opera House Saturday 18 July marked the final show of our 2026 Centenary Summer Performance season on the Royal Opera House main stage, following four performances of The Next Generation Festival and Graduate Showcase at the Linbury Theatre in June and five at Opera Holland Park in early July. The Royal Opera […]
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Students share their highlights performing at Opera Holland Park Our students completed a brilliant week of shows at Opera Holland Park earlier this month, braving an intense heatwave with grace and lots of ice. The centenary Summer Performance programme, curated by Artistic Director Iain Mackay to showcase heritage works and new creations, was met with rousing applause from an audience of families, faculty and supporters. These
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Alum Louise Flanagan on designing the costumes for Cathy Marston’s A Line in Reflection We were thrilled to welcome alum Louise Flanagan back to the School this year to design the costumes for fellow alum Cathy Marston’s new work, A Line in Reflection, created especially for our Centenary Summer Performances. Louise drew from her experience
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The School takes over Covent Garden this summer with screenings, sculptures, sweets and more From 22-27 June, The Royal Ballet School has partnered with Covent Garden on a landmark Piazza takeover to mark the School’s centenary year and transform one of London’s most iconic public spaces into an open-air celebration of ballet, performance and creativity.
Student choreography shines at Benefact Group’s Service of Celebration at St Paul’s Cathedral On Wednesday 3 June 2026, eight Pre-professional Year students performed classmate Layla’s site-specific choreography at Benefact Group’s Service of Celebration in St Paul’s Cathedral. Left: Pre-professional Year student choreographer Layla; right: the students performing under the dome in St. Paul’s Cathedral Development Manager Georgina Nash writes of the
‘Refine all the time:’ alum Samara Downs on staging Checkmate and Swan Lake for our Summer Performances School alum and Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal dancer Samara Downs recently returned to the School to set Ninette de Valois’s Checkmate and Peter Wright’s Swan Lake on our Upper School students for our 2026 Summer Performances. She has previously worked with our students on Frederick Ashton’s La Valse for our 2024 Summer Performances. Samara talked to us about her experience working with the students after a Swan Lake Spanish divertissement rehearsal. ‘The students were
Frederick Ashton Emerging Choreographer 2026 On Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 May, our 2nd Year students participated in the annual Frederick Ashton Emerging Choreographer performances, held at the Upper School Linden Studio Theatre. Named for the Founding Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Frederick Ashton, this event invites students to develop and present their own choreography under the guidance of Choreographic Course Coordinator & Tutor Mikaela Polley. The 15 student
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School supporters celebrate centenary at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace On 22 and 23 April, The Royal Ballet School hosted donors, supporters, friends and members of the School community for two memorable evenings at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace to celebrate the School’s centenary. Guests were granted exclusive access to the critically acclaimed exhibition Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style, the largest display of the monarch’s wardrobe ever staged. This exhibition provided a fitting context to
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Six White Lodge prize winners show work at the Young Art 2026 Exhibition Head of Art Clare Quamina recently accompanied six White Lodge students to Christie’s auction house in St James’s to view their artwork in the Young Art Exhibition. She writes, ‘On Tuesday 21 April Year 9 students Chien-Ning, Myles, Eliana, Alba and Ryleigh and Year 11 student Ayuka
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Four Pre-professional Year students perform in the YAGP International Dance School Festival at Lincoln Center Pre-Professional Year students Ivan, Millán, Nanoha and Samantha represented the School at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) International Dance School Festival in New York City on 18 April 2026. The gala featured 10 of the world’s leading ballet schools, including ABT Studio Company and JKO School, Beijing Dance Academy, Houston Ballet II,
