Dance Update

BA Ballet Education Graduation show is over and well done: Notice and some pictures here.

In June: Performing at The Place.

I am also very honoured and happy to have been given the opportunity to be part of The Karsavina Project - a project hopefully to become more and more popular amongst dancers and teachers. Tamara Karsavina, as a founding member of the Royal Academy of Dance, devised a syllabus specifically for dance teachers who would train there. Based on her own experience as a ballet dancer and a student at the Imperial Ballet School (now Vaganova Academy) in St Petersbourg, the syllabus contains elements of various styles and schools of ballet and is therefore invaluable also from a historical perspective. This syllabus has been passed on from Karsavina herself to selected teachers who have taught it at the RAD since. The Karsavina syllabus is the Royal Academy of Dance's possession and copyrighted.


There is an endeavour at the moment to record the syllabus in other, more tangible ways as well (video, notation, interviews): "The Karsavina Project". Find it on facebook with more explanations and lots of pictures from the filming session!

Tamara Karsavina, circa 1915