Royal Academy of Dance

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Episode 1 – Tiler Peck

Tiler Peck, one of the world’s great ballerinas, opens the new season of Why Dance Matters. The California-born dancer is a reigning star at New York City Ballet, where she has been a principal since 2009, and is also a director and choreographer in her own right. Feted for her innate musicality and formidable work […]
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The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition 2023

The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition is the Royal Academy of Dance’s flagship annual event, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world that attracts the finest young dancers trained in the RAD syllabus, from around the globe. The dance competition is dedicated to promoting and rewarding standards of excellence in young ballet […]
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Episode 7 – Benjamin Zephaniah

In the last episode of this season of Why Dance Matters, we meet a poet – the resonant, rousing, heart-stopping Benjamin Zephaniah. Benjamin’s specific dance connection is that he’s recorded the narration for Rambert’s acclaimed new stage production based on Peaky Blinders, the cult period crime drama. As a celebrated performance poet, he’s used to […]
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Episode 6 – Dr Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel

In this episode of Why Dance Matters, we’re in conversation with Dr Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel the Head of Research and Lead Academic Integrity Officer at the RAD’s Faculty of Education. A graduate of the RAD, the Universities of Durham and Surrey and London Metropolitan University, she took up the position of Lecturer in Dance Studies at […]
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Episode 5 – Jay Jay Revlon

For this episode of Why Dance Matters, we’re in conversation with DJ, activist and dancer Jay Jay Revlon. Ballroom culture was celebrated in the tv drama Pose, set in New York during the 1980s and 90s. It originated in Harlem, where queer people of colour came together in act of self-expression and resistance, and is […]