10 January 2025 - 13 January 2025

CPD Activities January 2025 (Slovenia)

We are offering a variety of CPD activities in Kamnik, Slovenia in January 2025.

10 January: Syllabus Strategies: Focus on Grades 4 and 5, 10am – 5pm

A one-day practical course in which participating teachers will gain an understanding of how to teach the Grades 4 and 5 syllabi. Learning activities will focus on creating appropriate development exercises to encourage an accurate interpretation of the criteria used in the mark scheme of the examination.

CPD Hours: 8 hours Time-Valued CPD

Tutor: Roberta Botti MA ARAD RAD RTS

Fee: RAD Member €80 / Non-Member €100

11 January: Music Applied to Dance, 9am – 4pm

The first part of this workshop will focus on music theory, including the concepts of time and rhythm, pulses and subdivisions, the main musical time signatures, and how we choose to count and why. The second part of the workshop will focus on the practical application in a dance class. Learning activities will include a practical session, highlighting how to choose appropriate music for constructing training exercises, analysis of significant examples from the RAD syllabus, how rhythmic accuracy can change the outcome of the performance, and how music can be used as a teaching tool to build technique.

CPD Hours: 6 hours Time-Valued CPD

Tutor: Roberta Botti MA ARAD RAD RTS

Fee: RAD Member €80 / Non-Member €100

12 January: Silver Swans® Workshop, 10am – 5pm

This workshop introduces experienced ballet teachers to Silver Swans®, with a focus on safe and inclusive practice for adults and strategies to maximise their experience.

Participation in Silver Swans workshops is open to experienced ballet teachers wishing to find out more about approaches to teaching ballet to older learners, with a view of becoming a Silver Swans Licensee.

On completion of the workshop, RAD Registered Teachers will be automatically granted the Silver Swans licence. All other teachers who currently teach ballet will be considered for the licence.

Confirmation of eligibility for a licence will be based on the observations of the Silver Swans tutor delivering the session. The tutor will observe the participant’s secure demonstration of ballet teaching, as detailed in the list of competencies on our website.

CPD Hours: 8 hours Time-Valued CPD

Tutor: Kerry DeVine AISTD CDE RAD dip, dip NBS

Fee: RAD Member €80 / Non-Member €100

13 January: Principles and Practices of Adapting Ballet Repertoire for Older Learners, 9am – 12pm

This three-hour practical workshop is designed for ballet teachers to extend their knowledge of adapting ballet repertoire for adults and older learners in a safe and engaging way. As well as learning ballet repertoire for performance purposes, dance teachers often draw on other contextual aspects of the works in order to provide a rich and holistic learning and performance experience for their students. Through learning about the historical, social and cultural perspectives of the ballet repertoire, students are able to extend their engagement in ballet classes beyond that of performance alone.

Another key focus of this workshop is to expand expertise and knowledge of andragogy as an approach to teaching that facilitates learning for adults who are self-directed learners. The workshop will deliver a greater understanding of how ballet repertoire can be taught in an interactive, accessible, and inclusive manner to older learners. During the workshop, participants will collectively explore ideas as to how different approaches and teaching strategies can be drawn on when planning and teaching ballet repertoire in ballet classes for older learners. In this workshop examples of repertoire will be taken from Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and Coppélia. These examples can be used in the participants’ own classes along with their own adaptions of other ballet repertoire of choice. The workshop will complement and enhance the Silver Swans® Workshop.

CPD Hours: 3 hours Time-Valued CPD

Tutor: Kerry DeVine AISTD CDE RAD dip, dip NBS

Fee: RAD Member €44 / Non-Member €55

Tutors

Kerry DeVine AISTD CDE RAD dip, dip NBS

Kerry graduated from Northern Ballet School, Manchester in 1999 with an RAD Student Teaching certificate, AISTD Diploma in Classical Ballet, Modern Theatre, Tap Dance and National Dance, and an NBS Diploma.

For a year she taught freelance in the Northwest, in Shropshire, and in Oslo, Norway. During this time she went on to gain her RAD Teaching Certificate and Diploma. In 2000 she established her own dance studio based in Wigan which is still running to this day, celebrating its 24th year. The studio hosts annual shows and exam sessions with the RAD.

In 2001 Kerry became a member of the RAD’s Northern Regional Committee and was invited to be an RAD tutor in 2003, teaching at various workshops, summer schools and courses both nationally and internationally. In 2010 she became a mentor and tutor taking her around the UK for the RAD CBTS programme, assessing and mentoring student teachers.

In 2018 Kerry became a Silver Swans® tutor, delivering the Silver Swans Workshop for the RAD and running her own weekly Silver Swans class in Lancashire.

Dr Roberta Botti MA ARAD RAD RTS

Roberta started classical ballet training at age six. In 2001, she achieved her Teaching Certificate with Distinction and continued to develop her teaching knowledge, focussing on music theory for dance and character dance. Between 2002 and 2006, Roberta worked as an assistant choreographer for the company of the Classical Ballet Association, under the direction of Maurizio Bellezza.  

She has trained in the Vaganova method in St. Petersburg, giving her a deeper insight into teaching ballet at pre-professional level, through the analysis of other methodologies. 

Roberta is now a freelance teacher and collaborates with a number of schools in Italy and around the world. Many of Roberta’s students have received excellent results and won many prizes and awards. She is an official tutor for the Royal Academy of Dance, training both students and teachers, a Silver Swans Licensee, Progressing Ballet Technique certified teacher and Pilates Matwork and Medibow Instructor.

Fees

Members of the Royal Academy of Dance receive discounts on all CPD activities.

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Contact

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