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  Royal Ballet School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Royal Ballet School is a specialist, co-educational school in London, England.
The Royal Ballet School's mission is to train ballet dancers to the standard necessary for entrance to The Royal Ballet in London, and the Birmingham Royal Ballet.
In 1948 the school became co-educational, acquired a Royal Charter and became the Royal Ballet School.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Ballet_School   (422 words)

  
 RoyalOperaHouse - Artists of The Royal Ballet - Soloists
Born in Rochford, she trained at the Royal Ballet School, dancing the Gypsy Girl (The Two Pigeons) for her graduation performance...
In 1999 at the School's annual performance she danced the pas de trois in Theme and Variations...
Of British-Tongan parentage, he was born in London and trained at the Rita Dyas School of Dance and the Royal Ballet School...
info.royaloperahouse.org /ballet/index.cfm?ccs=251   (350 words)

  
 The Royal Ballet School - History
The Royal Charter was granted in October 1956 and the School and companies were renamed The Royal Ballet School, The Royal Ballet and the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet (later renamed Birmingham Royal Ballet following its move there in 1990).
The calibre of students graduating from the school is self-evident.
The state of the art studios are linked to The Royal Ballet by the award winning Bridge of Aspiration thus fulfilling Madam’s dream to have Company and School side by side in the centre of London.
www.royal-ballet-school.org.uk /information/history.htm   (333 words)

  
 Royal Ballet School physicals - physical requirements for dancers Dance Magazine - Find Articles
Entrance to the Lower School of the Royal Ballet School for children between the ages of eleven and sixteen is by audition.
The Royal Ballet School's annual performances every summer conceal heartbreak behind the smiles because so few graduates can be taken into the Royal Ballet company--only three or four each year.
That can be a problem, since the Royal Ballet School does not restrict its enrollment according to height; its undersized graduates may have to convince companies to make exceptions because of their talent.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n1_v69/ai_16284353   (933 words)

  
 RoyalOperaHouse - Artists of The Royal Ballet - Principals
Born in London, she studied at the Royal Ballet School.
Born in Australia, she trained at the Royal Ballet School and won the Adeline Genée Gold Medal and Prix de Lausanne...
Born in Buenos Aires, she trained at the ballet school of the Teatro Colón...
info.royaloperahouse.org /ballet/index.cfm?ccs=247   (286 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Ballet honours Queen's sister
The plaque, which is in the adjacent Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, commemorates the "dedication, enthusiasm and support" of the princess, who was President of the Royal Ballet School and Royal Ballet Companies for 46 years.
The new ballet school covers about 42,000 square feet and will be the base for 80 students and their staff.
The move is part of the Royal Ballet School's five-year plan to develop the school's facilities and programme of training.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2891511.stm   (505 words)

  
 B.co RBS page
The Royal Ballet School enjoys a worldwide recognition as a great Institution.
The Upper school was established in 1947 and now has an annual intake of between 35 and 40 for its 2 year course.
Performance opportunities are available at the School's annual performance in July and with the Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet companies.
www.ballet.co.uk /links/royal_ballet_school.htm   (144 words)

  
 Ballet-Dance Magazine - Royal Danish Ballet School - Interview with Niels Balle - March 2004
A twenty-year veteran of the Royal Danish Ballet, Balle was recently named deputy director of the Royal Danish Ballet School, and is in charge of the training program for the company apprentices (aspirants).
Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter [the ballet school director] was already attached to the school then, and I think she talked to Frank [Andersen] who was directing [the company] at that point, about if I wasn’t going to make it back into the company, that I maybe was interested in teaching.
The school is officially known as the Ballet School of the Royal Danish Theatre, but is usually referred to the Royal Danish Ballet School.
www.ballet-dance.com /200405/articles/Balle20040325.html   (3125 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Information about Royal Danish Ballet School
The Royal Danish Ballet School has trained dancers for the Royal Danish Ballet since the 1770s, and like the company itself, the school is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe.
The Royal Danish Ballet School is still situated at the theater, making Denmark the sole country in the world in which the national ballet company, the ballet school, and the attached primary school are all located under the same roof.
Under the supervision of ballet master August Bournonville, the Royal Danish Ballet School was reorganized in 1847, dividing the pupils into two classes; one reserved exclusively for the children, and the other one for the adult dancers.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=offsiteDetails&entity_id=15074&source_type=O   (853 words)

  
 Ballet West
He has choreographed ballets for schools at home and abroad and for the National Youth Ballet of Great Britain, of which he is a patron.
She was born and trained in Japan and came to London in 1974 to dance with the New London Ballet and subsequently the London Festival Ballet as Principal Dancer.
She was one of the first to join the full-time course and during her time at the school gained a wealth of experience as a performer and teacher.
www.balletwest.co.uk /staff.htm   (1658 words)

  
 Royal Ballet, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Royal Ballet, is based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England, and is the leading ballet company in the United Kingdom.
At that time, de Valois was invited to bring the company to the ROH as the permanent ballet company of the newly-founded opera and ballet company under the direction of David Webster.
Celebrated dancers of The Royal Ballet have included Dame Margot Fonteyn, Dame Ninette de Valois, Anthony Dowell, Rowena Jackson, Irek Mukhamedov, Darcey Bussell, Miyako Yoshida, Jose Manuel Carreño and Sylvie Guillem (guest principal).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Ballet,_London   (290 words)

  
 Zamuel Ballet School
The school was originally founded in 1997 as the International Ballet School (IBS), with branches in Denver and Colorado Springs.
Zamuel was a principal dancer and choreographer of the Maliy Theatre of Opera and Ballet, St. Petersburg, Russia and professor of choreography at the All Union College of Arts and Culture, St. Petersburg.
Zamuel served for 11 years as senior teacher at The Royal Ballet School in London, as principal teacher at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater School, as director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theater II, and as ballet teacher for the New York Conservatory of Dance.
zamuelballet.com   (568 words)

  
 Ballet Department Faculty: School of Music: Indiana University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He performed with the Royal Ballet, the Royal Opera Ballet, and the London Festival Ballet before coming to New York in 1976 to join the Eglevsky Ballet as ballet master and resident choreographer.
She has been an advocate of arts and education working as director of ballet for Rochelle School of the Arts, as a dance representative of the Hawaiian Alliance for Arts and Education and served on the Committee for Artistic Excellence in Florida.
Wang studied ballet at the Ballet Department of the Shanghai Dance School and in the graduate program at the School of Music of Indiana University.
www.music.indiana.edu /som/ballet/faculty.shtml   (831 words)

  
 Boston Ballet : Summer Dance Faculty
She was trained primarily at the Atlanta School of Ballet with Robert Barnett, Merrilee Smith and Dorothy Alexander, and went on to study on scholarship at the Joffrey School.
Martinez received his Ballet Degree from the Royal Conservatory of Dance in Madrid (Spain), and is also graduated from the Dance Education Laboratory at the 92nd street Y Harkness Dance Center in New York City.
She is also a guest teacher at a number of professional dance schools in the United States, including the Boston Ballet School, the School of Rochester Ballet, Brass City Ballet and others.
www.bostonballet.org /school/summerprograms/summerdancefaculty.html   (2676 words)

  
 UK Schools round-up - criticaldance.com ballet and modern dance forum
This year's intake at both the Royal Ballet's junior and senior schools will be made up of 14 boys and 10 girls and, like the film's hero, Nicholas Jones, 11, from Woodbridge in Suffolk has won a place at White Lodge - the school's junior section for 11 to 16-year-olds.
THE Royal Ballet’s debt of gratitude to the makers of Billy Elliot for making elegant dancing hip — the school accepted more boys than girls this year for the first time in its 76-year history — has yet to be repaid.
News that top ballet school Elmhurst was planning to move to the city from Surrey was exclusively revealed in the Evening Mail recently.
www.criticaldance.com /ubb/Forum17/HTML/000340.html   (1692 words)

  
 Thordal Christensen, Faculty (Westside Ballet)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Aage Thordal Christensen, known to his Westside Ballet students as Thordal, received his dance training at both The Royal Danish Ballet School and School of American Ballet.
In 1985 he was invited to become a member of the New York City Ballet where he danced a varied repertoire including ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins.
In 1992 he was invited to join The Royal Danish Ballet where he continued his dance career for the next seven years.
www.westsideballet.com /school/teachers/christensen.html   (205 words)

  
 English National Ballet School
After a period of teaching, she led the Education Departments at Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet and also researched and implemented the Royal Ballet's training scheme for talented young dancers.
Jane holds an MA in Ballet Studies, has been a member of the inspection team for the Council for Dance Education and Training, an adjudicator and adviser for LEA discretionary Grants and has received funding to research dance training and selection methods in the US and Cuba.
Jane is committed to ensuring that all aspects of the school maintain the highest standards and that each student should have careful guidance and every possible opportunity to fulfill their potential.
www.enbschool.org.uk /sch_st_jhackett.html   (161 words)

  
 Taking stock at the Royal Ballet School - The Teach-Learn Connection - Brief Article Dance Magazine - Find Articles
A native of Australia and formerly a principal with the Australian Ballet, she is forthcoming, polite but determined, and puts one in mind of a steely hand inside a velvet glove.
Stock says that the school syllabus is greatly influenced by the Vagonova training, particularly in the use of the upper body and in the artistry.
The school is funded by a government agency, the Department for Education and Skills.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_10_76/ai_92136014   (909 words)

  
 The Royal Ballet School - Lower School @ UK Schools Guide 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Under the auspices of Lilian Baylis, it became The Sadler’s Wells Ballet School in 1931, and The Royal Ballet School at the granting of the Queen’s 1956 charter.
Up to the age of 16, pupils board at the Lower School; this is housed in White Lodge, built as a Royal Hunting Lodge in 1727, and set in idyllic surroundings in the middle of Richmond Park.
The school puts on an annual performance at The Royal Opera House and there is a week of performances at the ROH Linbury Studio Theatre.
www.schoolsguidebook.co.uk /schools/The_Royal_Ballet_School_-_Lower_School.html   (516 words)

  
 Royal Swedish Ballet School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Royal Swedish Ballet School is proud to be able to offer an education where the artistic and physical training go hand in hand to reach the professional standard that dance today demands.
The Royal Swedish Ballet School´s aim is to educate professional dancers in the different styles of dance, such as classical ballet and contemporary dance.
The classical course requires a high standard of dance technique from the Royal Swedish Ballet School´s preparatory dance education in the junior school, or another equivalent dance education.
svenskabalettskolan.com /main_eng.asp   (379 words)

  
 Florida West Ballet - Faculty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was also the artistic supervisor of its 175-year-old ballet school, where he worked with dance students from childhood to the post-graduate level.
Pavel Fomin was born in the Ukraine and received his ballet training from 1955 to 1961 at the Odessa Ballet School and the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad under the guidance of A. Pushkin and S. Kaplan.
Yapparov was a soloist with the Opera and Ballet in Sverdlovsk.
floridawestballet.com /wst_page2.html   (873 words)

  
 DANSPORTALEN - Kungliga Svenska Balettskolan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Royal Swedish Ballet School is proud to offer an education where the artistic and physical training go hand in hand to reach the professional standard and demands of today's dance scene.
The dance education in the Junior School is a preparation for a professional education and is located in Stockholm as well as in Gothenburg, Malmö and Piteå.
The purpose of the preparatory dance education in Junior School is that the pupils shall be technically and artistically ready to be accepted for and follow the Upper Secondary School´s professional course for dancers.
www.kungligasvenskabalettskolan.se /english   (503 words)

  
 School of Nashville Ballet Personnel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Her philosophy is that for all students ballet is the perfect venue to develop the confidence to fulfill any dream.
Sage has choreographed for Ballet Philippines, School of Nashville Ballet, School of Ballet Memphis, Mid South Dance Theatre and was commissioned to choreograph Peter and the Wolf for the Springfield Ballet in December 2001.
Thomas further distinguished herself as a teacher at the Royal Ballet School and served as Assistant Ballet Mistress for The Royal Ballet.
www.nashvilleballet.com /school/personnel.htm   (1227 words)

  
 The boy who danced his way from Plumpton to Royal Ballet - smh.com.au
Dancing, they confess, is not in the family and Plumpton, in Sydney's outer west where their son Steven grew up, is generally not considered a major training ground for principal dancers in the Bolshoi.
Steven was on his way to take up a place in the Royal Ballet School in London when he "stopped off" in Switzerland to take part.
The Royal Ballet was similarly left with no choice but to award him a scholarship, easing the considerable financial burden of his tuition.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/08/1044579984095.html?oneclick=true   (866 words)

  
 Nadia Thompson, Ballet Mistress | Milwaukee Ballet Online
Nadia Thompson was born in Southport, Australia and trained with her mother's school, Frances Davis Thompson School of Dancing.
At the age of 16, she traveled to the Royal Ballet School in London and under her mother's school, won a bronze medal in the world-renowned Adeline Genee Awards.
Thompson toured with the Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet (now Birmingham Royal Ballet) during her graduate year of the Royal Ballet School and then joined the Northern Ballet Theatre where she quickly became a senior soloist.
www.milwaukeeballet.org /thompson.html   (280 words)

  
 BalletMet Columbus, Ballet Company and Dance School
Charles was born in Folkestone, England, and trained at the Royal Ballet School in London.
She began dancing under the tutelage of Eduardo Elejar at The Cultural Center of the Philippines and attended the Philippine High School for the Arts and The Fabella-Elejar Dance Studios before joining San Francisco Ballet.
After training at the Julia Hickman Academy of Dance and graduating from the University of Cape Town Ballet School, he danced nine years with the Cape Town City Ballet and later with State Theatre Ballet and has appeared as a guest artist with both companies.
www.balletmet.org /about_artistic_bios.php   (336 words)

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