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Women’s History Month
We are using this year’s International Woman’s Day theme of ‘Choose to Challenge’ to kickstart our own series of features marking Women’s History Month.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be publishing features of how women, or those identifying as female, in dance have challenged stereotypes such as age, race, religion, body type, and gender roles.
10 mighty women who shaped the RAD
A brief look at just some of the hugely influential women from the history of the RAD.
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Akua Acheampong - RAD Voices
Akua Acheampong recounts her early involvement in dance and how she realised that in order to see the change she wanted to see, she needed to work in dance education.
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Looking for leaders
Heading a ballet company isn’t easy. Mess it up and the end can be brutal. Sarah Crompton meets directors who have stayed the course, and some who didn’t, asking what it takes – and why it goes wrong.
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Maisie Byers - RAD Voices
Maisie Byers is the founder of Ballet to Poetry Syllabus, a unique initiative that uses poetry to accompany ballet, celebrating the historical relationship between poetry and Islam.
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Queen Mary and the RAD
The Queen was quietly interested in dance, and found the opportunity to express this by becoming the RAD's patron, at the suggestion of Adeline Genée.
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Tushna Dallas - RAD Voices
Tushna Dallas founded the first RAD school in India and will always be remembered as one of the pioneers of Western classical ballet in India
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COVID-19 latest information
Guidance for students, examiners, tutors and teachers, with updates on how our services may be affected as RAD headquarters is currently shut.
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Weekly Silver Swans classes
Join us every Wednesday for ballet exercises adapted for older learners, delivered by our Silver Swans Licensees.
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Support our new headquarters
Discover our plans for a new purpose-built global headquarters and how you can support us.
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RAD takes centre stage as government announces grants for the arts
The Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden visited RAD to announce a grant of £606,366 from the Culture Recovery Fund.
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Latest News
9 Mar '21
9 Mar '21
RAD Annual General Meeting 2021
Notice is hereby given that the 84th Annual General Meeting of the Royal Academy of Dance will be held on Tuesday 11 May 2021. Time:…
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9 Mar '21
9 Mar '21
Celebrating Tamara Karsavina
CelebratingTamara Karsavina Today marks 136 years since the birth of Tamara Karsavina, the legendary Russian ballerina, and one of the founders of the RAD. Born…
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8 Mar '21
8 Mar '21
International Women’s Day
Here at the RAD, we're marking International Women's Day, which celebrates the achievements and pioneering advancements made by women around the world in areas such…
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1 Mar '21
1 Mar '21
Achieving Full Potential
In a world of self-care and committing to being our authentic selves for our own sense of fulfilment, the most recent Passion to Perform event…
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19 Feb '21
19 Feb '21
The Fonteyn 2021 begins today
The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition, formerly known as the Genée, begins online today. 114 candidates from 17 countries are participating in the initial stage of the competition.…
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12 Feb '21
12 Feb '21
DisDanced: What we learnt in 2020
Toward the end of last year, we asked our members, what they had learnt during 2020 as a consequence of COVID-19 – what positive experiences…
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Upcoming Events
Ballet in the 20th Century: Bronislava Nijinska and Sir Frederick Ashton: Choreographic Connections (Webinar)
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