Silver Swans Summer School 

Monday 14 July 2025 – Saturday 19 July 2025

Various, GMT

Events Short course Silver Swans Summer School

Booking Deadline:

Monday 16 June 2025

Event Date:

Monday 14 July 2025 – Saturday 19 July 2025

Event Time:

Various, GMT

Location:

Available Online?

No

Who’s it for?

Recommended for age 55+

Fee:

Members £300
Non-members £330

The Silver Swans Summer School offers you the chance to immersive yourself in a week filled with dance.

You will experience ballet technique, classical repertoire, contemporary and Move to the Musicals classes throughout the course, which will focus on enhancing your musicality and artistry. The week will culminate in an filmed performance in the Aud Jebsen Studio Theatre capturing repertoire and Move to the Musicals work. This will then be available for you to view following the course. 

Highlights of the programme include:

  • A trip to see a west end performance on the Saturday afternoon
  • Experience a variety of styles, with a strong focus on ballet technique, building into classical repertoire
  • The chance to be taught by professional teachers with years of experience within the industry

Taking part in the summer school is one of the best things I have done. For confidence, wellbeing, health and fitness and of course improving my dance techniques and knowledge… For a few moments I felt like a ballerina. Excellent value for money and time. An incredibly happy and inclusive week.

Participant of the Silver Swans Summer School 2024

Class information

There are two different classes to choose from:

Class 1: Suitable for all levels – SOLD OUT
Class 2: Suitable for all levels – SOLD OUT

Monday – Friday
All dancers will receive classes throughout the week in ballet technique, classical repertoire, contemporary and Move to the Musicals. Each day dancers will participate in a 45 minute ballet technique class and a 1 hour repertoire class. Move to the Musicals classes will take place on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and are 1.5 hours in duration. Contemporary classes will take place on Tuesday and Thursday and are 1.5 hours in duration.

Saturday
On Saturday, dancers will receive a 45 minute ballet technique class before rehearsing their performance pieces from their repertoire and Move to the Musicals classes. Following this, the performances will be recorded, and then shared with dancers following the classes for a limited period of time.

Please note, this course has now sold out. If you would like to be informed should a space become available, you can join the waiting list by following the link.

We do have limited availability in our other Silver Swans Weekly courses. Click the events below for more details:

Silver Swans Easter Course
Silver Swans: Focus on Classical

Venue

Royal Academy of Dance
188 York Road
London
SW11 3JZ

Times

Class 1
Monday – Friday: 11.30am – 4pm
Saturday: 10am – 12.30pm

Class 2
Monday – Friday: 11am – 3.30pm
Saturday: 10am – 12.30pm

  • There will be a one hour lunch break scheduled each day
  • The full timetable will be shared following the closing date
  • The above times do not take into account the theatre trip organised for the Saturday afternoon

Theatre trip

As part of the Silver Swans Summer School, you will attend a matinee performance on Saturday 19 July. See full details below. Please note, dancer’s will be required to make their own way from RAD to the theatre in order to attend the performance.

Moulin Rouge

Saturday 19 July, 2.30pm
Piccadilly Theatre, 16 Denman Street, London, W1D 7DY

Enter a world of splendour and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Pop the champagne and prepare for the spectacular spectacular…

Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. A theatrical celebration of truth, beauty, freedom and — above all — love, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical; it is a state of mind.

Faculty

Faculty for the Silver Swans Summer School will be announced here in due course.

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