Click to enlarge Our 2015 Summer Season at the Royal Opera House will include five performance in the Linbury Studio Theatre from 1 to 4 July and will culminate in a matinée performance on the main stage on Sunday 12 July. Our main stage matinée will feature Frederick Ashton’s delightful Les Rendezvous as well as […]
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Click photos to enlarge On Saturday 7 March we teamed up with three other leading UK ballet schools for an event at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre celebrating British dance training. Spring Celebration was a collaboration between Central School of Ballet, Elmhurst School for Dance, English National Ballet School and The Royal Ballet
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On Sunday, Year 7 student Vlada, was a finalist in the Young Writers’ Awards organised by artsrichmond. Vlada’s poem, Snowflakes, was chosen from a selection submitted by our Year 7 students in December. She was among only three students in the Year 7 age range in the final. Vlada was awarded a Highly Commended certificate
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The winner of this year’s Kenneth MacMillan Senior Choreographic Award is Caitlin Rogers (Year 10) for her piece Inch by Inch. The composition was set to a spoken word track by composer Paul Kelly called Peace from Any Given Sunday, featuring the voice of Al Pacino. Second prize went to Christian Bratu (Year 11) for his
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Today our 2nd Year students took part in the Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance, performing in the Linden Studio Theatre at our base in Covent Garden. The award was created by Nina Finburgh in honour of Lynn Seymour, one of The Royal Ballet’s most celebrated dramatic ballerinas. The competition was judged by Kevin O’Hare, Director of The
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We are delighted to invite all alumni to a very special Alumni Diamond Jubilee Celebration to mark the 60th anniversary of White Lodge, in Richmond Park, being home to Royal Ballet School students. Please join us on Saturday 6 June (Dame Ninette de Valois’ 117th birthday) in the beautiful grounds of White Lodge (1- 5pm) to reconnect
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Our students were proud to represent the School this month by taking part in the 799th annual Lord Mayor’s Show. Wearing bespoke period hats designed by millinery students of Kensington and Chelsea College, 15 of our students joined the The Worshipful Company of Feltmakers’ stunning float, riding in two Delaunay-Belleville automobiles and a Stanley Steam
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We are pleased to announce an event bringing together the country’s leading dance schools in a collaboration at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre in March 2015, hosted by The Royal Ballet School. Spring Celebration: A showcase of British dance training, will be a special evening celebrating the very best of British ballet training.
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The first ever Royal Ballet School Summer Concert was held at White Lodge earlier this month in our Margot Fonteyn Theatre, giving students a chance to demonstrate their musical and theatrical talents. There were excellent performances from pupils across all the year groups based at White Lodge (Years 7 to 11). The school’s choirs performed beautifully alongside
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This weekend our Year 10s will dance with pupils from Feltham Community College and Richmond Park Academy in Firebird, an original piece of choreography set to Stravinsky’s ballet score, performed by young musicians from Hounslow Music Service and Richmond Music Trust. The performances, which take place at White Lodge on Friday and Sunday, are the culmination of an innovative music
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