{"id":51784,"date":"2020-07-01T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=51784"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:33:41","slug":"training-a-new-generation-of-dance-artists-world-ballet-school-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/training-a-new-generation-of-dance-artists-world-ballet-school-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Training a new generation of dance artists: WORLD BALLET SCHOOL DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>English National Ballet School <\/strong>and<strong> The Royal Ballet School\u00a0 <\/strong>announced that they will be participating in the inaugural <strong>World Ballet School Day<\/strong> which will be streamed online on <strong>Tuesday 7 July<\/strong> <strong>from 12 noon BST<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World Ballet School Day trailer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0he1ISADdQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>World Ballet School Day (WBSD) connects the next generation of young professional dance artists with young people from around the world. Created by students for students, this event is a platform for young artists in training to share a message of solidarity through the language of dance and ballet.<\/p>\n<p>Students from participating schools will join together in a round table to provide insights into the world of professional ballet and dance training especially during lockdown, and will introduce segments from each school featuring behind the scenes and performance footage filmed both before and during lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The event will also feature the world premiere of a new dance work. Six international ballet schools worked with choreographer Didy Veldman to explore the theme of physical restriction in a project led by The Royal Ballet School. The Royal Ballet School invited San Francisco Ballet School, Canada\u2019s National Ballet School, Paris Opera Ballet School, The Royal Danish Ballet School and the Dutch National Ballet Academy to join them in a creative choreographic challenge for ballet students in lockdown. The dancers worked in six groups and created and rehearsed with Didy over Zoom. The students then filmed their individual performances and Didy and The BalletBoyz have created a film containing their work.<\/p>\n<p>The founding of WBSD is a collaboration of Boston Ballet School, Canada\u2019s National Ballet School, English National Ballet School, New Zealand School of Dance, Palucca University of Dance Dresden, and the Prix de Lausanne. The idea was originally conceived by Viviana Durante.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve schools\/institutions from three continents are participating in this inaugural year:<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Ballet School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Paris Opera Ballet School<\/p>\n<p>Boston Ballet School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Prix de Lausanne<\/p>\n<p>Dutch National Ballet Academy\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Royal Ballet School<\/p>\n<p>English National Ballet School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Royal Danish Ballet School<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s National Ballet School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 San Francisco Ballet School<\/p>\n<p>Palucca University of Dance Dresden\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New Zealand School of Dance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viviana Durante, Director of Dance at English National Ballet School, says<\/strong><em>: \u201cWorld Ballet School Day is about uniting students training at professional ballet and dance schools around the world. We want to showcase their resilience, strength, dedication, talent, intellect and passion, celebrating how their journey begins and why\u2014now more than ever\u2014ballet, dance and art matter so much.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Powney, Artistic Director of The Royal Ballet School, says:<\/strong><em> \u201cI am delighted that The Royal Ballet School is taking part in the inaugural World Ballet School Day at a time when celebrating our young dancers feels more important than ever. Forced to train in isolation and in often very challenging spaces, they have continued to find the energy, motivation and focus they need to keep going. I am inspired daily by the passion and commitment our young dance community has shown in the face of such unprecedented and difficult circumstances.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldballetschoolday.com\/\">https:\/\/www.worldballetschoolday.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English National Ballet School and The Royal Ballet School\u00a0 announced that they will be participating in the inaugural World Ballet School Day which will be streamed online on Tuesday 7 July from 12 noon BST. &nbsp; World Ballet School Day (WBSD) connects the next generation of young professional dance artists with young people from around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51788,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51784\/revisions\/51788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}