OurHistoryandHeritage
IrisTruscottteaching
ProfessionalDancer's
Studentsatbarre, TeachingCertificate
Studentsintutorial1949. FairfieldLodge1949. DiplomaDayStudents1976. students1982.
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TheAcademyexiststopromote OurHistory GeorgeV (in 1935),it was granted a Royal degree programme,the BA (Hons)Art
knowledge,understandingand
TheRoyalAcademyofDancewasestablished Charter and became the RoyalAcademy andTeaching of Ballet,commenced,replacing
practiceofdanceinternationally.
in 1920,at theTrocadero Restaurant of Dancing. On the death of Queen Mary the three-yearTeacherTraining Programme.
in Piccadilly,London,by a small group in 1953,HM Queen Elizabeth II became 1999 saw the appointment of Luke Rittner
of eminent dance professionals.Brought Patron of the RoyalAcademy of Dancing. as Chief Executive and the formation
TheRoyalAcademyofDance(RAD)
together by Philip Richardson,former editor of the Faculty of Education under the
isoneoftheworld’slargestandmost
of DancingTimes, the group represented TheAcademy was granted charitable status leadership of the Director of Education,
influentialdanceeducation,trainingand the leading European schools of ballet: in 1963 and continued to develop its syllabi Professor JoanWhite. Both appointments
membershiporganisations.Withover
Adeline Genée from Denmark,Tamara with the introduction of a new children’s signalled a period of unprecedented
13,000members,itsinfluencehasnow
Karsavina from Russia,Lucia Cormani from syllabus devised by the then President, review and change.
spreadto79countriesrepresented
Italy,Edouard Espinosa from France and Dame Margot Fonteyn DBE. As the RAD
Phyllis Bedells from England.Their concern expanded within the UK,moving to its NewDirections
byanetworkof34internationaloffices.
about the poor quality and badly organised present headquarters in Battersea,London, The work of theAcademy in the 21st
TheAcademyaimstobuildonits
state of dance teaching in Britain at the time it began to spread its wings and in 1983 century has outlined a way forward
historicfoundationsbyrespondingto led to the emergence of the‘Association of the first headquarters outside of the UK for a more diverse,dynamic and influential
thecontemporaryneedsandaspirations
TeachersofOperaticDancinginGreatBritain’. was established inAustralia. organisation. This began with a small
ofallyoungpeopleintoday’sworld.
but significant change of title from Royal
Over the next decade,theAssociation In 1991 DameAntoinette Sibley DBE was Academy of Dancing to RoyalAcademy
flourished,growingrapidlyinsizeandinfluence elected President of theAcademy. A year of Dance granted by the Privy Council in
and,at the last Privy Council Meeting of King later the first full-time university validated 2000. Since then,a number of changes
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