All4ballet

Thank you for the welcome Karen. The Royal Ballet Lower School at White Lodge in Richmond Park, London - for students aged 11 to 16. The Upper School, attached to the Royal Opera House in Central London, is for the final 3 years of training. Students are aged from 16-19. I believe that Darcey Bussell started at White Lodge when she was 13 years old - so perhaps she began in the 3rd of the five years training that is available there.

I work at The Royal Ballet Lower School in Richmond Park, London and, through the years of my daughter's training as a dancer, I have become interested in ballet and it's history. At 16, our daughter is very happy to have gained a place at The Royal Ballet Upper School - attached to the Opera House in Covent Garden. She writes a blog about the life of a vocational student of dance.