Mental Health Awareness Week: Meet our School Counsellor This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, led by the Mental Health Foundation, which involves a series of events and discussions around mental health. As part of this, The Royal Ballet School will be holding talks at the Upper School and White Lodge centred on coping with mental health issues, […]
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We are proud to report that five of our students will join The Royal Ballet in September as part of the Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme 2017/18. The programme provides young graduate dancers with a year’s contract to work alongside the corps de ballet of The Royal Ballet. In addition the dancers are given mentoring and coaching
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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