This year’s Summer Fair at White Lodge featured a special stall manned by our Year 7 students. They were selling pointe shoes they had decorated themselves in aid of Cancer Research UK and raised a grand total of £613.10 — a fantastic achievement. The fundraising was in tribute to our former Director, Gailene Stock, who died recently after a long […]
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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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This week we have welcomed students and staff from the Royal Danish Ballet School, visiting us over two days. Our Danish visitors have been in contact with Year 9 students as pen pals and have come here to meet their new friends and learn about how our students’ life and training compares to their own. Yesterday the
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Today we announce a pioneering new partnership with Dancers’ Career Development to make the subject of career transition a formal part of our full-time students’ curriculum. Dancers’ Career Development will work with students in the final three years of study at The Royal Ballet School (ages 16 to 19). They will be given an Introduction to Transition in Year One and
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The second instalment of the BBC Antiques Roadshow filmed at White Lodge, our base in Richmond Park, will air this Sunday 1 June at 8pm on BBC1. Viewers will not only get see the experts in action reviewing historic objects, they will also get a unique insight into the building and grounds of the 18th
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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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A very special exhibition is being mounted this spring to mark the fifth anniversary of White Lodge Museum & Ballet Resource Centre, based at The Royal Ballet School in Richmond Park. Darcey Bussell: from Student to Star of The Royal Ballet will chart Darcey Bussell’s life as the nation’s favourite ballerina, from her days as
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Dame Monica Mason yesterday unveiled a painting at White Lodge, Richmond Park, that she has generously donated to the School. The painting, by Martin Sutherland, is a 12 x 17.5 foot tableau of the set of Hamlet, depicting Helpmann’s 1942 staging of the piece, created in 1987 for Leslie Hurry’s exhibition about the ballet. The
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Earlier this month we hosted a visit from American Ballet Theatre Studio Company (ABT) as part of a repeat exchange with the company. The exchange is aimed at helping students learn about different styles and teaching methods, and is a fantastic opportunity for them to build networks, share expertise and meet new people. The ABT
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