Classes and the school day
The School day starts with your warm-up prior to the first morning class at 9.30am.
Each day, for every student, there is a full Ballet class (separated by gender) and a full Contemporary Dance Class. There are also one or two more dance technical classes.
In order to provide a full Ballet training, these other classes include: Pas De Deux, Classical Solos and Classical Repertoire. Women, of course, work on pointe every day.
Reflecting a thorough approach to Contemporary Dance, the third and fourth classes of each day also include Contemporary Solos and Improvisation.
There is instruction in Choreography. However, particularly after the first year, choreography is largely treated as a subject requiring personal practice and research.
Academic, Critical or Contextual studies emphasise the acquisition of traditional academic skills. The purpose of these studies is both to provide the means through which students who so wish might continue in other areas of undergraduate and post graduate study, and to improve as dancers and choreographers.
Please see Principal Subject Areas for a full list of, and more detail on, the subjects that students can expect to study.
Individuality
Rambert School programme does not work through the assumption that the bodies of the students must closely approximate, or can be judged on the basis of their similarity to, a single perfect form.
This attitude dictates that different body forms are allowed and encouraged within the course and this in turn dictates that teaching and learning is individually approached. Each student is encouraged to fulfil his or her unique potential as a person and as an artist.
