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What the Royal Academy of Dance has
to offer
Classical ballet is exciting, demanding and inspiring. For ballet to
retain its vigor it is vital to have professional classical ballet
teachers, equipped with internationally recognized qualifications,
imparting their knowledge and love of dance to future generations. The
Royal Academy of Dance is the largest examining and teacher education
organization
for classical ballet in the world. With over 17,000 members, its influence has
spread to over 84 countries and it has a network of
international offices and representatives. There are currently 1,200 students in
full-time or part-time teacher training with the Academy. Each year, the Academy
Examination Syllabus is taught to more than 250,000 students.
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Quality
training to provide teaching professionals you can trust
Parents want the best for their children and we strive
to provide the best in the field of classical
ballet training. All our
teachers have graduated from one of our teacher education programs,
which entitles them to be included in the Academy's Register of
Teachers. We take care to monitor our teachers, throughout their
training and beyond, to ensure that standards are maintained, and our
range of courses is designed to help teachers develop their
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A Brief History of the
Royal Academy of Dance
 The
Royal Academy of Dancing was born at the Trocadero Restaurant in Piccadilly,
London in 1920 on the 31st December, by a small group of eminent
dance professionals. Brought together by Philip Richardson, Editor of the
British magazine
Dancing Times, the Group included five great European dancers: Adeline
Genée, Tamara Karsavina, Lucia Cormani, Edouard Espinosa, and Phyllis
Bedells. Between them, they represented the principal dance training methods
of the time - Genée the Danish school, Karsavina the Russian school, Cormani
the Italian school, Espinosa the French school, and Bedells the English
school. Their concern was for the poor quality and badly organized state of
dance training in Britain. If standards of ballet were to improve, they
decided, something had to be done about the way it was taught. There and
then they formed themselves into the Association of Teachers of Operatic
Dancing - the organization that was to become the Royal Academy of Dancing.
Over the next decade, the Association grew in size and influence, and in
1936 at the last Privy Council Meeting of King George V, the Association was
granted a Royal Charter and became the Royal Academy of Dancing, the
youngest of the five Royal Academies. In 1997
The
Benesh Institute, the custodian of Benesh Movement Notation, was
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Ten Things about the Academy
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185, 000 children and students examined or assessed
in classical ballet annually
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17,600 members in 84 countries
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5,500 registered teachers in 65 countries
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1,200 students studying to become teachers of
classical ballet in 48 countries
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580 graduates at Certificate, Diploma and Degree
levels in 1998.
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400 courses offered worldwide for continuing
professional development
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37 offices representing 73 countries
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17 summer schools held at selected centres
worldwide for children and students
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8 full-time or part-time teacher education
programs available to students and ex-professionals
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OK there was only Nine!
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