Darcey Bussell visits The Royal Ballet School during preparations for The Nutcracker
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2015
- Former Principal of The Royal Ballet Darcey Bussell visits The Royal Ballet Lower School at White Lodge during their preparations for The Nutcracker at the Royal Opera House. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk
The Royal Ballet School is one of the world’s greatest centres of classical ballet training which for generations has produced dancers and choreographers of international renown, including Margot Fonteyn, Anya Linden, Kenneth MacMillan, Lynn Seymour, David Wall, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Marguerite Porter, Stephen Jefferies, Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope.
And now there’s a new generation making its mark on the world stage, all of whom trained at the Royal Ballet School - Lauren Cuthbertson, Steven McRae, Edward Watson, Christopher Wheeldon and Liam Scarlett to name but a few.
Admission to the School is based purely on talent and potential, regardless of academic ability or personal circumstances, and 89% of current students rely on financial support to attend the School.
The School offers an eight-year carefully structured dance course, aligned with an extensive academic programme, giving the students the best possible education to equip them for a career in the world of dance.
Our mission is to train and educate outstanding classical ballet dancers for The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and other top international dance companies, and in doing so to set the standards in dance training, nationally and internationally.
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker score was commissioned by the director of the Russian Imperial Theatres, following the resounding success of The Sleeping Beauty in 1890. Marius Petipa created the scenario, which is based on a fairytale by E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Lev Ivanov provided the choreography. The Nutcracker was first performed in 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. It initially had a poor reception, but its combination of enchanting choreography and unforgettable music has since made it one of the best-loved of all ballets.
In Peter Wright’s classic production, the stage sparkles with theatrical magic - a Christmas tree grows before our eyes, toy soldiers come to life to fight the villainous Mouse King and Clara is taken to the Kingdom of Sweets on a golden sleigh. Tchaikovsky’s score contains some of the best-known melodies in ballet, from the flurrying sounds of the Waltz of the Snowflakes to the dream-like Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Julia Trevelyan Oman’s designs draw upon 19th-century images of Christmas, making this a magical production for the festive season. - Розваги
Look how excited they are! Darcey must seem like nothing short of their ballet fairy God mother
if I was at white lodge and darcy arrived I think I would die of happiness (I'm a dancer too)
Those kids are SO adorable and that lady seems so lovely and nice
+Anna-Carolina "the lady", Darcey Bussell is a very famous ballerina ;)
+Anna-Carolina A VERY famous ballerina indeed!
Oh I had no idea!
'that lady' possibly the worlds most well known and talented ballerinas
+Anna-Carolina That’s alright. She retired almost a decade ago, probably before you were born or when you were very little. If you were to pick any picture book about ballet, I’m pretty sure you’ll find pictures of her. She was a beautiful dancer when she danced with the Royal Ballet.
Darcey is so nice with the children! What a great dancer!
Oh do I wish and wish I was one of them! I wish I'd been more conscious of what you needed to become a professional when I was their age so that I could have done something about it. Good luck to you all! I'm sure you'll be amazing!
White lodge is such a magical place ♥
Darcy Bussell generous as always and the children the stars of tomorrow BRAVA !!!!!!
They are so adorable omggg
Rhyan I agree but I will be one of those very soon very soon
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How adorable 💚💞💖darci is something special... so warm 🌺🌺🌺🇺🇸
I would love to listen to the nutcracker's ballet music transcripted for piano because it's richer than the nutcracker piano suite that pianists usually do, the ballet musics are always fairy-like and gorgeous!
Im in this video omg
Afro Balletics Vlogs ur so cute! Xx
Cool!
@evanlamar 70 Can you tell me about your experience? 😊
Our school dance team recently collaborated with them for a performance..Such lovely students😊
My older sister was going here for a few months but had to leave because she was homesick, if anyone who goes here remembers someone called Cookie Wild, that is her. She doesn’t even do ballet anymore.
The boy in the glasses is cute 💗🐼
Megan Casas thats a girl not a boy
Charming lady
Adorables
they're so cute oh my god
ah elijah, jayden and jill they look so adorable
Omg nice one
Just asking out of curiosity...my friend’s daughter is going to some well know ballet school here in Japan. She really wanted to star in Nutcracker at the end of the year, and got the smallest role. But according to her, every single kid who got chosen would have to pay about 2-3k dollars to get the role. Including “participation” fee, training/rehearsal fee, costume fee, “thank-you-teacher” fee(?) and tons of other fees. I asked some of my other dancer friends, they shrugged and said yeh it’s about right. But it’s just so over priced imo...just wondering if it’s the same every where else. Or it’s just weird here.
Sounds like a weird Japanese thing. If anything, the children are performing, a.k.a working. My understanding is that they should be paid?
Galastel thanks! I think so too. it’s just super dodgy and unfair to the kids. But ppl here keep saying it’s the norm which annoys me a lot. Hope this kinda ridiculous japanese thing ends soon.
I use to go to school with the girl at 1:55
Cool was she nice?
Aren't there issues about dancing with glasses? Both with it being more difficult because of limited peripheral vision, and with the danger of the glasses flying off? And I don't imagine they'd have glasses on stage - that doesn't really fit the characters. Older dancers would have contacts, but what do the children do?
contacts are your best friend even when your young if you are a dancer
IM THE 1,100th LIKE IM HONOURED
Hmmm.....I don't hear any kids from our local council estates. Funny that.
Have you not seen “Billy Elliot”?
What a stupid thing to say. You can attempt to get into The Royal Ballet school if you come from a council estate if you like as everyone gets the same opportunity at the audition - plus most students there get help from the government to pay the fees. Now the fact that council estate parents tend to not start their kids off in ballet from the age of 5 or whatever (so they wouldn't end up going to auditions at The Royal Ballet school) is another issue and hardly the fault of The Royal Ballet school!
Only kids of rich parents get to go here, £30,000 per year in fees.
about 90 percent get help with the fees around 20 percent pay none at all, but its still a big commitment
You get help with fees from the government which is more than you get with normal private schools. But tbh there's no getting away from the fact that ballet has always been a middle class pursuit - much like tennis. If working class/council estate parents see it as 'boring' or for snobs or whatever thus don't take their kids to see ballets in London/Birmingham etc so the interest is never ignited in the kid, then how is that anyone else's fault? Maybe they should shift their perspective and be more open-minded. When I was a child I used to go to council run ballet classes. Guess what? No kids from council estates there even though it was free - the parents from social housing just aren't interested for the most part.
I attended White lodge starting in 2002 ... and was like MOST kids - on a DADA scholarship from UK Arts council. Then all UK domiciled kids attended the Upper School also on full DADA scholarships. I don’t think this has changed since then and we had diverse classes relative to private school’s back then ... :) it was an amazing place, but white lodge is spooky at night !
ie. you are incorrect