Dance Gazette is our highly-respected international dance magazine, produced as part of our mission to inspire the world to dance and with over 100 years of dance teaching and training knowledge and expertise.
After 91 years as the printed voice of the Royal Academy of Dance, it re-invents itself as a digital-only magazine. It still offers inspiring stories, exploring how the RAD impacts upon the world and how the world affects us all. We still work with imaginative writers, photographers and illustrators but we now offer more multimedia content, more ways to bring stories to life.
Published three times a year (February, June and October) it is a benefit of membership of the Royal Academy of Dance, available free of charge to our worldwide membership of teachers and students in 89 countries. Single issues can be purchased – order your copy now.
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Latest Issue
Editor’s welcome
Photo by Helen Murray
Hello! An ambassador faces in two directions, standing between their organisation and the wider world. They represent their organisation’s values – but they can also feed back what they hear and see from the world.
No two dancers are better placed to be ambassadors of the RAD than our cover stars, Céline Gittens and Steven McRae. Each is an impressive principal dancer – Céline with Birmingham Royal Ballet and Steven with the Royal Ballet – but the RAD has been a constant thread from early ballet training through to success in the RAD’s Genée International Ballet Competition (now the Fonteyn). Each is now an RAD Ambassador: they’ll exemplify the RAD’s core ideals, but will hear what students, professional dancers and the international community need from RAD and its teachers. Their conversation in this issue is a taste of what they will bring to the Academy.
We also ask: what makes a happy organisation, how dance informs medical projects, how RAD teachers can cross the world and what it takes to be a K-pop star. More sombrely, we also feature Ukrainian dancers building new lives after the terrible invasion of their country and pay tribute to the RAD’s late Patron, Her Majesty the Queen.
Dance Gazette Editor, David Jays
David Jays writes for the Guardian and Sunday Times and is editor of Dance Gazette, the Royal Academy of Dance magazine. @mrdavidjays.
Throughout 2020, three guest editors have taken the helm of Dance Gazette, presenting the RAD and its work through their eyes and the lens of another industry, providing an alternative perspective
A selection of articles from previous editions of Dance Gazette
Shake It Up
In recognition of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we're featuring an article from Dance Gazette in which Isaac Ouro-Gnao asks – as…
Challenge and change Facing up to challenges is very 2020 – but it isn't easy. David Jays, Dance Gazette editor, selects some inspiring articles about…
From strut to slut drop, Beyoncé has given modern pop its most iconic moves. Lyndsey Winship asks her choreographers and other experts what dancers can…
Dance Gazette celebrates dancing women as leaders, creators, role models. Anna Winter meets three inspirational women. A century since the first British women got the vote,…
Ballerina assoluta, fashion heroine and RAD President, Margot Fonteyn was the ultimate ballet icon. Anna Winter traces her unique impact on dance. Margot Fonteyn at…
As Karen Kain receives the RAD's most prestigious award, she tells David Jays that her stellar career happened almost by accident. Karen Kain. Photo: Karolina…
If you don't want a robot to steal your job, you need the arts!
As the RAD celebrates its centenary with a major display at the V&A, the museum's director Tristram Hunt discusses the importance of arts education. Tristram…
Voguing and classical ballet seem worlds apart, but Gareth was eager to bring them together. Anna Winter invites leaders from these very different worlds to…
A male pairing on the British tv show Strictly Come Dancing shone a spotlight on the LGBTQ+ dance scene. Emily Garside explores the history and power of…
