Ninette de Valois Choreographic Award 2018 The winner of the 2018 Ninette de Valois Choreographic Award was Grace Donovan with her composition Cloudburst. The Award is dedicated to the memory of our Founder and is part of the School’s strong tradition of nurturing young choreographic talent. This year 12 young choreographers, aged 11-14, were selected from […]
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The Advance Project performance Year 10 students joined young people from Harris Academy Tottenham on stage this month for two special performances marking the culmination of The Advance Project. The Advance Project, held annually at the School, is a unique opportunity for our students to work with young people from local secondary schools on a
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Spring Concert 2018 On Sunday we welcomed friends and family to watch students perform drama and music in our Spring Concert. The event is a chance for the students to show their talents beyond the ballet studio; playing musical instruments, singing, performing monologues and acting out pieces of theatre. Year 7s opened the show with
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Choreography Project at the Prix Two of our 3rd Year students, Harrison Lee and Katharina Nikelski, were invited this month to take part in a unique choreography experience at the Prix de Lausanne. This one-of-a-kind collaboration, called the Choreography Project, was choreographed by Goyo Montero and involved 50 young dancers from schools across the world dancing together.
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Creative connections: The Advance Project 2018 Young people from Harris Academy Tottenham have visited The Royal Ballet School for their first day of joint rehearsals in a unique collaboration for The Advance Project. This annual project comprises a series of visits to each school, workshops and joint rehearsals which culminate in the two groups creating a
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Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award 2018 Congratulations to Kele Roberson and Damen Axtens, winners of this year’s Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award 2018 with their piece Introspection. Introspection, set to music composed and arranged by violinist Anna Phoebe, asks the question ‘can you, if only for a second, allow your mind to be quiet?’ On Tuesday 30 January
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Students get creative for our Mindfulness and Resilience week This week students and staff across the School have been taking part in Mindfulness and Resilience week. During registration each day our students have tried a different mindfulness technique; from calming colouring to origami. There have also been ‘Gratitude Trees’ at both sites, where students and
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Students dance with BRB at the Royal Albert Hall A group of our 3rd Year students are fortunate to be dancing in a very special production of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall this week. It is the first time Birmingham Royal Ballet has performed its festive ballet at the Royal Albert Hall
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Winner of this year’s Christmas art competition announced Congratulations to Connie, Year 9, the winner of this year’s art competition to design a Christmas e-card. Our judges deliberating over this year’s entires Each year the students from White Lodge enter designs for the School’s Christmas e-card. This year, from 62 entries, 33 images were shortlisted
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Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award 2017 Congratulations to Anna Daly, winner of the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award 2017. This year’s Award took place on Tuesday 13 December at the Margot Fonteyn Studio Theatre, White Lodge and was open to Year 10 and 11 students. The students not only created eleven unique ballets, presented to an audience of
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