Farewell to our Chairman It is with a heavy heart that we say farewell to our Chairman, the Duchess of Wellington after a remarkable and successful 10 years of leading the governing body at The Royal Ballet School. On Tuesday 10 December, the whole school assembled at White Lodge to celebrate the Chairman’s incredible work […]
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Kenneth MacMillan Emerging Choreographer 2019 On Thursday 12 December, Year 10 and 11 students presented their choreographic creations as part of the Kenneth MacMillan Emerging Choreographer programme. The performances were the culmination of several months’ of preparation for the nine shortlisted choreographers. After the performance, a panel of experts including Ashley Page, Andrew McNicol, Emma
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Students celebrate alumna Leanne Benjamin AM OBE Three of our Australian students were invited to celebrate the achievements of Royal Ballet School alumna and former Royal Ballet Principal dancer Leanne Benjamin AM OBE this week at the Leanne Benjamin AM OBE Recital evening. The students, Mason, Meg, and Ruby, are all supported by the Tait
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Auditions across the USA The Royal Ballet School is excited to announce that it is expanding its audition opportunities with four auditions in the USA in January 2020. We will be hosting our first ever auditions in Kansas, Los Angeles, New York City, as well as returning to Chicago. We want aspiring young dancers, whose
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Christopher Rodrigues CBE is appointed Chairman of The Royal Ballet School The Royal Ballet School has appointed esteemed businessman Christopher Rodrigues CBE to be its new Chairman from January 2020. The current Chairman, The Duchess of Wellington OBE will step down in the New Year after ten years in post. Christopher Rodrigues has enjoyed a
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Ballet training: how much is enough? A thinkpiece by Mark Annear, Head of Training & Access at The Royal Ballet School For as long as I have been involved in auditioning students for vocational training I have been asked: ‘how much should my child be doing before an audition?’ My answer is usually ‘no more
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Celebrating #WorldBalletDay 3rd Year students Maddison Pritchard and Denilson Almeida joined Royal Ballet Principal dancers Yasmine Naghdi and Ryoichi Hirano in a Concerto masterclass coached by Alfreda Thorogood and Gary Avis. The masterclass was live streamed on Wednesday 23 October as part of the sixth annual World Ballet Day. Maddison said ‘Yasmin and Ryoichi are
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Remembering Maria Fay by Amanda Maxwell, former Character dance teacher at The Royal Ballet School The Hungarian teacher Maria Fay, who had a significant association with The Royal Ballet School, died on 17 October aged 91. To many dancers and ballet companies around the world, since her flight from the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, Maria
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Valerie Adams FRAD 1935-2019 We were deeply saddened to hear the news that Valerie Adams FRAD died earlier this week. Valerie was an alumna of the School and the founder of our Teachers’ Training Course in 1964. Her legacy will live on at the School as her work continues to inspire our great teachers. Our
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