Royal Ballet School is one of the world's largest classic ballet training centers. The School's goal is to train and educate outstanding classical ballet dancers for The Royal Ballet (based at Royal Opera House in London) and Birmingham Royal Ballet. Entry into School is based purely on talent and potential, regardless of academic ability or personal circumstances, and 90% of students currently rely on financial support to attend the School. The school is based in two places, White Lodge, Richmond Park (for students aged 11-16) and Covent Garden (for students aged 16-19 years) based in a specially built studio on Floral Street, adjacent to the Royal Opera House.. The Royal Ballet School has, for generations, produced internationally renowned dancers and choreographers, including Dame Margot Fonteyn, Dame Beryl Gray, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Darcey Bussell, Alessandra Ferri and Viviana Durante, and the current Royal Kevin O's Royal Ballet. School graduates have also achieved work in musical theater, contemporary dance and jazz, television and film.
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History
In 1926, Irish-born dancer Ninette de Valois founded the Academy of Choreographic Art, a dance school for girls and a predecessor of the Royal Ballet School. His intention was to form a ballet company and a ballet school, leading him to collaborate with Inglisch theater producer and theater owner Lilian Baylis.
Baylis owned the Old Vic theater and acquired Sadler's Wells theater in 1925. In 1928, he engaged de Valois to perform dance performances in both theaters and he reopened the Wells Sadler theater in 1931, with de Valois school moving to a studio on the site. as Wells Sadler Ballet School, teaching boys and girls. At the same time, Vic-Wells Ballet Company was formed using students from schools and other famous dancers of the era. Both the school and the ballet company expanded rapidly and after the ballet show stopped at Old Vic, the ballet company was renamed Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1946, the company moved to become a resident ballet company at the recently opened Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and as a result, in 1947 the school moved from Wells Sadler to a place in the Barons Court, with an academic education introduced for the younger. students.
After a rapid expansion, in 1955 the school secured a place at the White Lodge in Richmond Park, London. It was established at the time as the Royal Ballet 'Lower School', a residential dormitory school for children aged 11-16, which combines general education and vocational ballet training. The 'Royal School' Royal Ballet School was established at the school's premises in Barons Court with students studying full-time ballet between the ages of 16-19.
In October 1956, Royal Charter was officially associated with ballet and school companies and they became The Royal Ballet School and the Royal Ballet Company. The second small company still performs in Sadler Wells and toured the UK and this became Wells Royal Ballet from Sadler. In 1990, Wells Sadler's company moved to become a resident ballet company at Birmingham Hippodrome, in Birmingham, where he was renamed Birmingham Royal Ballet, forming a new association with Elmhurst School for Dance in 2002.
In January 2003, older Royal Ballet School students (ages 16-19) moved into the newly built studio complex on Floral Street, adjacent to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, where The Royal Ballet remains a resident ballet company. A bridge was built between the school and the Opera House, connecting schools with theaters and studios belonging to The Royal Ballet Company. The bridge designer receives an architectural award and is known as the Bridge of Aspiration .
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White Lodge
Younger students from the Royal Ballet School moved to White Lodge, Richmond Park in Richmond, London in 1955 when the school was split for the first time. The Georgian building is a former royal residence and hunting lodge built during the reign of King George II. It is a School's permanent building and there has been extensive rebuilding of the site to provide dance art and academic facilities and accommodation for students.
Children attend school between the ages of 11-16 and enter the school just by audition. Schools receive more than twenty thousand applications every year and hold auditions in major cities in the UK. Having an international reputation, schools also accept applications from other countries. As a boarding school, the majority of students stay on the premises, although there are a small number of day students.
In the dance, students learn classical ballet, character dance, contemporary dance, gymnastics, Ireland, Morris, and Scotland. Later in their training, students studied the ballet, solo and pas de deux repertoire and boys did the upper body conditioning. The school offers academic studies at the secondary school level, both on Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, with all students taking the GCSE exam.
Covent Garden
Base Covent Garden The Royal Ballet School was founded in 1955, when the younger students were transferred to White Lodge. The school remains in the studio at Barons Court, London, with academic studies being introduced for the first time. Then in 2003, the school was moved to a new place, and the former Baron Court site is now home to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
The school was moved to a new place and built in Covent Garden in January 2003. The complex is a four-story building with six art studios, including a theater studio with a crew-drawn seating for 200 people. The building also houses changing rooms and bathrooms for male and female students, fitness room and fitness room, pilates studio, physiotherapy room and students' shared space. Facilities for academic education include four classrooms, a library with computer equipment, an art studio and an audiovisual suite. All dance studios are connected to an audiovisual suite so classes and exercises can be filmed as a training tool, allowing dancers to analyze themselves.
Along with the intensive ballet training schedule, students also learn Pas de deux, Solos, Repertoire, Character, Contemporary, Stagecraft, makeup, and body conditioning. The 3rd year students have many opportunities throughout the year to practice with The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Show
Each year The Royal Ballet School presents its Summer Show, featuring students of all age groups in various classic and contemporary works. The culmination of the school's dance year is the annual matinÃÆ' © e at the Royal Opera House, which showcases graduate students before they begin their professional careers as well as featuring students from all the school years. The program includes new works and pieces of inheritance from the Royal Ballet repertoire and culminates in a large grand cà ©, where every school student appears on stage in a choreographed curtain call.
Prima Ballerina Assoluta
The Royal Ballet School is unique in that it has trained four of only a small number of dancers in history who have been recognized as Prima Ballerina Assoluta, the highest honors for the ballerina. Exclusively trained at The Royal Ballet School and dancing throughout his professional career with The Royal Ballet, Margot Fonteyn was appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta from the company by Queen Elizabeth II in 1979. After being trained at The Royal Ballet School from 1959 to 1966, Eva Evdokimova will went on to become an international guest ballerina, recognized as Ballerina Assoluta Prima after her performance with Ballet Kirov in the late 1970s. The title was later officially recognized by the German Senate. Phyllis Spira began training at the Royal Ballet School in 1959, joining the Royal Ballet tour company in 1960. Choosing to leave his international ballet career, he returned to his native South Africa, where he danced most of his career with the CAPAB ballet, today Cape Town City Ballet. He was appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta by the President of South Africa in 1984. Recently, Royal Ballet School graduate Alessandra Ferri was named Ballerina Assoluta from La Scala Theater Ballet in 1992. Another British Ballerina, Alicia Markova, was also taught by Royal Founder of Ballet School Ninette de Valois, and will be a leading ballerina with Ballets Russes, the first Ballerina Prima The Royal Ballet, a ballerina founder with the American Ballet Theater, and one of the founders of the British National Ballet who now recognize it as Prima Ballerina Assoluta. Although not trained at The Royal Ballet School, a direct relationship with the founder of Ninette de Valois school produces a total of up to five.
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