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An interview with Olga Smirnova | Why Dance Matters

Why Dance Matters celebrates its 50th episode in conversation with one of the world’s great ballerinas. Olga Smirnova’s Giselle with Dutch National Ballet will be broadcast to international cinemas on 21 January. She joined the company after making headlines in 2022 with a courageous, life-changing decision to leave Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet in response to Russia’s […]

Royal Academy of Dance

18 januari 2024

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Leadership Training – Royal Academy of Dance

Discover our new Leadership Training programme for high-potential and senior executive leaders in the corporate sector, delivered by The Movement in Practice Academy for Royal Academy of Dance.

Royal Academy of Dance

18 januari 2024

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An interview with Nina Wadia | Why Dance Matters

This festive episode visits the pantomime: that uniquely British blend of song, dance, and silliness. Explaining its appeal is the cherished comic actor, Nina Wadia, who stars in Jack and the Beanstalk at York Theatre Royal. Nina, who grew up in India and Hong Kong, is the perfect guide to anyone who is not steeped […]

Royal Academy of Dance

21 december 2023

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A tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah | Why Dance Matters

In this episode of Why Dance Matters, we revisit a conversation from October 2022, in tribute to the poet, performer and activist Benjamin Zephaniah, who died earlier this month. As a performance poet he gave words a glorious physical form, his rhythms dancing from line to line. He had also provided a voiceover for Rambert’s […]

Royal Academy of Dance

14 december 2023

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An interview with Aaron S. Watkin | Why Dance Matters

Aaron S Watkin seems like a man who knows what he likes: perfect material to direct a leading ballet company, and to judge a leading ballet competition. The new artistic director of English National Ballet was recently a judge for the Royal Academy of Dance’s Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition in London. Canadian-born Aaron danced […]

Royal Academy of Dance

7 december 2023

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An interview with Pam Tanowitz | Why Dance Matters

Pam Tanowitz is now an in-demand choreographer – but her career has followed a unique trajectory. For years, she and her company had an under-the-radar following in New York, but only recently did she win wider attention. A work set to TS Eliot’s 4 Quartets led to international tours and commissions for the Royal Ballet […]

Royal Academy of Dance

30 november 2023

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