Fresh Fridays with Richard Chappell

This week Rambert School welcomes back Richard Chappell for a contemporary class as part of Fresh Fridays. Fresh Fridays is a chance for our students to be challenged creatively with working industry professionals.  They get the chance to experience contrasting ways of working to give them industry insight and a chance to embrace different techniques and approaches.    Following class he will also be performing for our students.

Five things to know about RDC:

*Richard Chappell is an internationally renowned choreographer and performer.

*He trained on The Royal Ballet School’s Associate program and then continued his study at Tring Park School, before undertaking a BA Hons Degree at Rambert School.  During his training Richard started developing his choreography for the National Youth Ballet (Sadler’s Wells) and Youth Dance England’s Young Creatives Scheme (Royal Opera House)

*In 2013  Richard Chappell Dance Compnay was formed to act as a platform for his choreographic research and touring activities

*2018 was a busy year for RCD, his company perfomed 58 shows, ten works in seven countries.

*Collaborators include Neus Gil Cortes, Samuel Hall, Faye Tan, Anna Gillespie and Louise Bennett

Find out more about Richard’s work here via his website.