Elmhurst Ballet School Artistic Director Robert Parker<\/strong>, is an award successful former principal dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.<\/p>\n Elmhurst<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Significantly, this famend ballet college educated 1 \/ 4 of this 12 months\u2019s finalists of the celebrated\u00a0Gen\u00e9e International Ballet Competition<\/strong>. \u00a0One of their college students, Hamish Scott, went on to win Bronze.<\/p>\n 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 <\/strong><\/a>and Lydia Holt<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n Together they supply a novel perception into the varsity, the creative and tutorial imaginative and prescient, what it\u2019s like as a scholar, and the way the varsity prepares younger dancers for his or her first step into skilled dance life.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n After nearly 10 years with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Robert took a sabbatical the place he realized to fly! He additionally obtained a Master\u2019s diploma in Philosophy in Education, and attained RAD Professional Dancers\u2019 Teaching Diploma with distinction.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s launched and the important thing parts of ballet coaching for the subsequent technology of ballet dancers.<\/p>\n Listen to Robert\u2019s recommendation for college kids searching for a place at Elmhurst Ballet School.<\/p>\n![\"Elmhurst](\"http:\/\/thewonderfulworldofdance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image1.jpg\")