Top tips to improve your wellbeing from this year’s Wellbeing Week Last week, we celebrated Wellbeing Week at The Royal Ballet School, an annual event to promote wellbeing and raise awareness about its importance. ‘Get out of your comfort zone and try something new’ was this year’s theme, highlighting the timely importance of exploring new […]
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Beyond ballet: The Academic Enrichment Programme Students at The Royal Ballet School live full and busy lives, balancing full-time vocational ballet training with a diverse academic and pastoral programme. At Upper School, our students are supported to achieve their full potential inside and outside the studios, completing a bespoke BA in Classical Ballet and Dance
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The art of acting with James Hay, First Soloist with The Royal Ballet At the School, we understand the importance of empowering and equipping our students with the tools for their careers as performers. Dancers are also storytellers, and acting forms an essential part of a dancer’s career. From classical ballets to abstract works, all
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Royal Ballet School students feature in The Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker for 2023 Since Rudolf Nureyev’s premiere of The Nutcracker at the Royal Opera House in 1968, it has become a tradition for students at The Royal Ballet School to perform in The Royal Ballet’s sparkling festive ballet. Now performing Peter Wright’s enchanting production, both White
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The most magical time of the year – our students perform in The Nutcracker 2023 The build up to Christmas is always a thrilling time for students as they have the incredible opportunity to take part in The Nutcracker at the Royal Opera House. Peter Wright’s rendition of this iconic ballet has been delighting audiences
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Celebrating the legacy of Nijinska at the Royal Opera House On Saturday 18 November, the Royal Opera House hosted Insights: The Legacy of Nijinska, highlighting the remarkable life and career of Bronislava Nijinska. Our students were thrilled to be asked to take part and rehearse an extract of Les Noces before a live audience. One
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White Lodge students perform in The Cellist at the Royal Opera House We never tire of seeing the amazing work our alumni go on to create throughout their careers. Last month, The Cellist, a one-act ballet created for The Royal Ballet by our alumna Cathy Marston, opened at the Royal Opera House. Cathy Marston graduated
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World Pianist Day – Q&A with Royal Ballet School pianists Liz, Tracey and Akiko Today we are celebrating World Pianist Day – a day to recognise the value pianists bring to our art form and to shine the spotlight on their mastery of playing the piano. At The Royal Ballet School, students are lucky enough
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Celebrating World Ballet Day 2023 On Wednesday November 1, the School participated in the 10th anniversary of World Ballet Day, a day bringing together over 50 of the world’s leading ballet and dance companies to celebrate the art form. An initiative of The Royal Ballet, The Australian Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, World Ballet Day
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Honouring our history: The Royal Ballet School’s Ninette de Valois Choreographic Programme From its origins as The Academy of Choreographic Art, The Royal Ballet School has a long tradition of nurturing the creative impulse in emerging young dancers. The School’s Founder, Dame Ninette de Valois, was a noted choreographer dedicated to centring choreography into our
