Elmhurst Ballet School Artistic Director Robert Parker, is an award successful former principal dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Elmhurst is the oldest and one of the crucial profitable ballet colleges not simply within the UK, however internationally. Elmhurst colleges younger ballet college students to reach the skilled dance world, offering top quality, holistic vocational dance coaching.
Significantly, this famend ballet college educated 1 / 4 of this 12 months’s finalists of the celebrated Genée International Ballet Competition. One of their college students, Hamish Scott, went on to win Bronze.
This is the primary in our 3 half mini-podcast sequence on Elmhurst Ballet School, beginning with Artistic Director Robert Parker, adopted by dance graduates Hamish Scott and Lydia Holt.
Together they supply a novel perception into the varsity, the creative and tutorial imaginative and prescient, what it’s like as a scholar, and the way the varsity prepares younger dancers for his or her first step into skilled dance life.
Robert shares his personal dance journey from coaching with the Royal Ballet School earlier than becoming a member of Birmingham Royal Ballet, underneath the directorship of the unbelievable Sir Peter Wright the place he rose rapidly to principal dancer.
After nearly 10 years with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Robert took a sabbatical the place he realized to fly! He additionally obtained a Master’s diploma in Philosophy in Education, and attained RAD Professional Dancers’ Teaching Diploma with distinction.
Robert turned Artistic Director of Elmhurst nearly 5 years in the past, and he talks about his imaginative and prescient for the varsity, new programmes he’s launched and the important thing parts of ballet coaching for the subsequent technology of ballet dancers.
Listen to Robert’s recommendation for college kids searching for a place at Elmhurst Ballet School.
Elmhurst Ballet School Summer Show – 7 to 14 July 2017
You may get tickets to Elmhurst Ballet School’s Summer Show and see the fabulous graduate college students performing in David Bintley CBE, Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet‘s first choreographic work for the varsity. Entitled Comic Cuts, the 15 minute work in 5 sections has witty bursts of leisure will showcase the personalities of every dancer.
David Bintley mentioned: “I have very much enjoyed returning to Elmhurst to choreograph my new piece for the summer show. Many of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s current dancers trained at the school, and former dancers have gone on to teach there, so it is an incredibly important part of the Company. The Upper School students have impressed me with their professionalism, energy and enthusiasm. Many of them will be graduating from the school this summer, and I wish them all the best for the future.”
The exhibits happen at Elmhurst’s studio theatre within the college’s Birmingham house from Friday 7 to 14 July 2017. Book Now!
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