Student diary — 10 days at the Prix de Lausanne Created in 1973, the Prix de Lausanne is an international ballet competition for young dancers aged 15 to 18 with the goal of discovering, promoting and supporting the finest talents around the world. We’re proud to have been a partner of the Prix de Lausanne […]
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Our students work on stagecraft with Stephen Wicks We’re lucky to have some wonderful guest répétiteurs helping to prepare our students for the stage. Last week, 1st Year students were thrilled to work on stagecraft with beloved alumnus and Sadler’s Wells and The Royal Ballet dancer of 18 years, Stephen Wicks. Stephen helped the students
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Just wrapped — the first Junior Associate Insight Class Your young ballet dancer can apply to become a Junior Associate on 21 February. Our Junior Associate Programme is for students aged 8 to 10 who want to explore their passion and potential in pre-vocational classical ballet training. Based in nine centres across the UK, the course
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A Creative Artist Talk with Dame Monica Mason Certainly within the walls of the School, our latest Creative Artist Speaker needed no introduction. Dame Monica Mason was a student, then The Royal Ballet’s youngest dancer, then Principal Dancer, then Director of the Company until her retirement in 2012. Still very connected to the School and
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A chat with author and alumna, Lucy Ashe At the School, one of our most fundamental values is to ensure all individuals have what they need to reach their potential and feel empowered to shape their futures as healthy, resilient human beings. That’s why we’re always so incredibly happy to hear when our alumni are flourishing.
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Spirit of the Ballet at Dorich House Museum Staff and students at White Lodge may have noticed that several familiar bronze heads and statues have disappeared from their usual pedestals around the building. That’s because they have been loaned to our nearby neighbour, Dorich House Museum for a special exhibition trail entitled Spirit of the
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Honouring our Chairman’s Circle with a special event On Thursday 19 January, we were delighted to welcome our Chairman’s Circle—some of the School’s biggest supporters—and their guests, to a special event at Upper School to express our gratitude for their enduring generosity. We also welcomed our School Governors and Governors of The Royal Ballet and
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Congratulations to our new ATAP teachers Our Affiliate Training and Assessment Programme (ATAP) exists to inspire a love of the process of learning ballet more than the end result, to drive forward the standard of teaching and keep pace with the changing needs of the art form. And it all starts in the studios with
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Our alumni join BRB2, a new Birmingham Royal Ballet company We’re thrilled that four of our alumni have been chosen as founding members of the new Birmingham Royal Ballet company, BRB2. Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) has created a new initiative, a two-year performance programme for some of the best young ballet graduates from around the
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Celebrating Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover CBE on her 90th birthday We were so happy to be able to commemorate the 90th Birthday of Anya Linden, Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover, CBE, at our Chairman’s Circle event on Thursday 19 January. With her late husband John, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover KG, Anya’s influence on
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