Press office

Contacts for press enquiries and the most recent press releases.

For press & communications, please email press@rad.org.uk.

Press releases 2024

• Royal Academy of Dance and mental health charity SANE to raise awareness of the power of dance (05/11/24)
• Announcing the winners of the Bedells Bursary 2024 (04/11/24)
• Royal Academy of Dance announces winners of The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition 2024 (08/09/24)
• Royal Academy of Dance announces finalists of The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition 2024 (06/09/24)
• Royal Academy of Dance unveils new augmented-reality experience outside its global headquarters (13/08/24) 
• The RAD announces guest performance at The Fonteyn 2024 final (16/07/24)
• Royal Academy of Dance announces commissioned choreographer, faculty and judges for The Fonteyn 2024 (15/05/24) 

Press releases 2023

• The Royal Academy of Dance launches ballet classes for the cancer community in partnership with Fireflies(13/02/24)
• The Royal Academy of Dance holds special event celebrating older dancers (02/10/23)
• The Royal Academy of Dance acquires Dancing Times photographic archive (27/09/23)
• The RAD’s prestigious Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition comes to London UK this October (25/07/23)
• The RAD announces scholarships for The Fonteyn 2023 (02/05/23)
• Gifted young dancers battle it out in competition organised by Step into Dance (30/01/23)

Press releases 2022

• Mikhail Baryshnikov presented with the RAD’s prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award by Her Majesty The Queen Consort (16/11/22)
• Royal Academy of Dance advises public to check dance teacher’s qualifications after publishing revealing new research (25/08/22)
• Young dancers from across London come together to celebrate 15 years of Step into Dance with two special performances (29/06/22)
• Artist Zi Ling wins Royal Academy of Dance portrait competition (05/05/22)
• Royal Academy of Dance ‘warms up’ for a special housewarming event (13/04/22)
• Royal Academy of Dance offers young people in Wandsworth the chance to dance for Dame Darcey Bussell at first-ever open audition (13/04/22)
• HRH The Duchess of Cornwall formally opens new Royal Academy of Dance global headquarters (10/03/22)
• Steven McRae appointed as Ambassador of the Royal Academy of Dance (04/03/22)
• HRH The Duchess of Cornwall will formally open new Royal Academy of Dance global headquarters on 10 March 2022 (03/03/22)
• Royal Academy of Dance appoints new Chief Executive (10/01/22)

Press releases 2021

• Dame Darcey Bussell and Dawn French reunite for a festive fundraiser for the Royal Academy of Dance (13/12/21)
• Royal Academy of Dance announces portrait competition (08/12/21)
• Royal Academy of Dance announces dance-inspired borough-wide art competition (02/11/21)
• Royal Academy of Dance announces medallists of The Fonteyn 2021 (09/09/21)
• Dame Darcey Bussell announces finalists for The Fonteyn, RAD’s international ballet competition, as it goes online for the first time (12/07/21)
• The Duchess of Cornwall visits On Point: Royal Academy of Dance at 100 at the V&A with Dame Darcey Bussell (09/06/21)
• Royal Academy of Dance launches new podcast ‘Why Dance Matters’ with host of remarkable guests from the world of dance and beyond (19/05/21)
• David McAllister AM awarded prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award by the Royal Academy of Dance (28/04/21)
• Royal Academy of Dance gifted rare painting of legendary Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina (29/03/21)
• Royal Academy of Dance to provide fun and fitness to your lockdown routine with free online dance classes for a range of ages (25/01/21)

Press releases 2020

• Royal Academy of Dance uncovers never before seen footage of ballerina Margot Fonteyn to be displayed at the V&A (02/12/20)
• Royal Academy of Dance gives unprecedented access to its archives for the first time at the V&A to celebrate 100 years (01/10/20)
• Royal Academy of Dance & This Works partner to create new dance class series: A Moving Summer (24/06/20)
• HRH The Duchess of Cornwall discusses taking Silver Swans ballet classes as Royal Academy of Dance announces her new role as Vice-Patron (29/04/20)
• You’re never tutu old for ballet: Royal Academy of Dance to inspire over 55s at home with free online ballet classes (30/03/20)

Press releases 2019

• The Duchess of Cornwall meets Silver Swans in New Zealand (22/11/19)
• New book, Royal Academy of Dance: Celebrating 100 Years, to be published on 2 December (04/10/19)
• Genée International Ballet Competition 2019 Medallists Announced (30/08/19)
• The Royal Academy of Dance’s Prestigious Ballet Competition Returns to the UK (15/05/19)
• RAD appoints Rebecca Taylor National Director of Australia (18/03/19)
• Royal Academy of Dance awarded ‘outstanding’ provider of initial teacher education by Ofsted
• Karen Kain to receive Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award in Toronto at the 2019 Genée International Ballet Competition (05/02/19)
• Dame Darcey Bussell, DBE sets the stage for new global headquarters for Royal Academy of Dance (23/01/2019)

Press releases 2018

• Royal Academy of Dance Australia’s Longest Serving National Director Retires after 29 Years (21/11/2018)
• Royal Academy of Dance Appoints Gerard Charles Artistic Director (24/09/2018)
• Medallists announced for the 2018 Genée International Ballet Competition (13/08/18)
• The 2018 Genée International Ballet Competition to be held in Hong Kong (09/05/2018)
• Carlos Acosta awarded the QEII (25/04/18)
• The Duchess of Cornwall visits Royal Academy of Dance (01/02/2018)
• Learn to dance famous ballet solos with Royal Academy of Dance’s Discovering Repertoire (19/01/2018)