www.royalacademyofdance.org/podcast Phil Chan is a dancer, arts advocate and activist born in Hong Kong and now based in New York. With Georgina Pazcogin of New York City Ballet, he co-founded Final Bow For Yellowface in 2017. Provoked by stereotypes of Asian characters and culture in classic ballets – mostly notably in The Nutcracker – their […]
RAD President Dame Darcey Bussell talks through costumes of our three founding ballerinas, as featured in our display On Point at the @V_and_A. The display is now on until 1 May 2022. royalacademyofdance.org/onpoint source
Dance, and especially ballet, can sometimes seem remote from people’s lives. How do you bolt it into the heart of a community? The answer often lies with an RAD Teacher. In this case, Victoria Treviño, who teaches in Mexico City, has used ballet to change the lives of young people facing very challenging circumstances. After […]
www.royalacademyofdance.org/podcast The choreographer Cathy Marston has a rare gift for telling stories in dance. Now a major player in leading ballet companies (including The Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre) that until recently were a boys’ own club, her starting point is often literature or history – in ballets about Jane Eyre or […]