1st Year Upper School student Amelia Townsend wins En Avant Foundation Scholarship

We are proud to announce that first year student, Amelia Townsend has been awarded the En Avant Foundation Scholarship. The scholarship will go towards funding Amelia’s training at The Royal Ballet School. Speaking about the award, Amelia said: ‘I’m so honoured to have this opportunity to dance at the School, and this scholarship will help me […]

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Dec 17 2015

Associate Days December 2015

Associate Programme, Community and outreach

This week we were joined in our Covent Garden base by our Mid and Senior Associates. These students train part-time in centres across the UK and attend workshops at the Royal Ballet School in their holidays. One student said about the day: “It’s really nice being with a new teacher to learn a new style

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Dec 17 2015

Performing with the Maxwell Quartet

Performances and events, School life

On 30 November at the Upper School in Covent Garden, our first years were joined by the Maxwell String Quartet, playing Prokofiev Quartet No. 2 Op. 92, to perform pieces they had choreographed as an ensemble. Students have been developing the scratch performances over the past four weeks in small groups, composing the work together using

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Dec 11 2015

Christmas jumper day at White Lodge

School life

On Wednesday 9 December the students at White Lodge once again wore their Christmas Jumpers for charity, organised by Mrs Suzanne Gunton. This year we chose the PSP Association (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy) a charity that supports those with this rare, incurable, neurological condition which robs sufferers of mobility and often of speech, and works with

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Dec 11 2015

Winners of 2015 Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award announced

Performances and events

On Thursday 10 December, the annual Kenneth MacMillan Senior Choreographic Award took place in the Margot Fonteyn Studio Theatre at our White Lodge base. There were twelve performances of individual pieces of original choreography, which had been created by our Year 10 and 11 students. The award recognises creative talent and encourages students to work

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Dec 8 2015

Students in full festive voice

Performances and events, School life

Students kicked off the festive season in full voice on Sunday at the School’s annual Christmas Carol Service, held at Christ Church in East Sheen. The White Lodge choir, made up of our younger, Richmond-based students, performed three pieces and the chamber choir sang two. The congregation, which included students, parents, staff and governors, also

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Nov 25 2015

Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance 2015

Performances and events

On Tuesday, our 2nd Year students participated in the Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance, performing selected solos in the Linden Studio at our base in Covent Garden. The award was created by Nina Finburgh in honour of Lynn Seymour, one of The Royal Ballet’s most celebrated dramatic ballerinas. The competition was judged by Kevin O’Hare,

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Nov 5 2015

Students perform at the Lord Mayor’s Appeal Gala

Performances and events

Tonight some of our students will perform at the Lord Mayor’s Appeal Charity Gala at the Guildhall in London. The Royal Ballet School was one of the Lord Mayor’s chosen charities for the 2014/15 Lord Mayor’s Appeal. The Gala celebrates the culmination of the appeal and is a final chance for the charities involved to raise funds,

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Oct 21 2015

Students enjoy tea at Mansion House

School life

Some of our 3rd Year students were lucky enough to get an invitation from the Lady Mayoress, the Lord Mayor’s wife, Gilly Yarrow to an afternoon tea for diplomats’ spouses at Mansion House; the home of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, on Monday. The tea was a chance for spouses and partners

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Oct 20 2015

David Drew MBE, 1938-2015

Alumni news, Announcements

School alumnus and teacher and former Royal Ballet Principal David Drew MBE has died at the age of 77 after a long illness. After graduating from The Royal Ballet School in 1955, David joined The Royal Ballet company, being promoted first to Soloist (1962) then Principal (1974), then Principal Character Artist (1989). His career with the

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