We were honoured this week to welcome Dame Merle Park and Sir Anthony Dowell to the school to coach some of our students in the pas de quatre from Frederick Ashton’s production of Swan Lake. This weekend six students will travel to Toronto, Canada, to take part in the Assemblée Internationale, an international dance festival […]

Photo: Ella Mansford (Year 11) The Ninette de Valois Choreographic Award 2017 On Thursday 30 March 2017, our White Lodge students took part in the annual Ninette de Valois Choreographic Award. This year the Award inspired a total of 37 entries choreographed by students in Years 7, 8 and 9. Of these pieces, 13 were

The Royal Ballet School Open Day and Summer Fair 2017 This year, our annual Open Day and Summer Fair will take place on Saturday 17 June and is an opportunity for ballet fans and those interested in the school to discover a little more about what we do. On the day we will be offering

Special Collections Livestream On Friday 24th March we held a Facebook livestream from our archive at White Lodge. Special collections Manager Anna Meadmore spoke about two secret items from our archive and answered viewers’ questions about the objects. Information about these objects and more can be found on our Ballet History Timeline.  

The Advance Project Performance 2017 Young people from Friern Barnet School will join students of The Royal Ballet School on stage tomorrow and Saturday in Richmond for a collaborative dance performance. The events, held in the Margot Fonteyn Theatre at White Lodge, will see the 44 students performing together in a new ballet called Are

The Royal Ballet School hosts Special Collections Livestream Do you consider yourself a ballet fanatic and would like to know more about the roots of British ballet? At 11am GMT on Friday 24 March, we’re holding a livestream from our archives at The Royal Ballet School at White Lodge. Special collections Manager, Anna Meadmore will

Thank you Mrs Conway On Thursday 2 March, our 3rd Year students gathered in the Dowell/Sibley Studio at the Upper School to say thank you to Royal Ballet School Deputy Chairman Ricki Gail Conway, for her generous sponsorship of the exchange with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company. Our 3rd Years recently spent a week in New York

Visit from Holocaust Survivor, Joan Salter On Wednesday 1 March, our Year 10 and 11 students at White Lodge heard testimony from Holocaust survivor, Joan Salter, as part of a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). She gave a talk describing her experiences as a just a young baby when war broke out and

The Creative Artist Programme – Theatre Alive! at The Royal Ballet School On Friday 24 February, Theatre Alive! presented their production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the Linden Studio of our Upper School. This was part of The Creative Artist Programme, an exclusive programme of creative lectures and workshops, with a roster of internationally renowned creative, cultural and

The Royal Ballet School launches Ballet History Timeline On Tuesday 7 February we launched our Ballet History Timeline, a unique and exciting online project that traces the story of the founding of a national ballet in Britain. Visit the timeline now: timeline.royalballetschool.org.uk