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The Royal Ballet School is one of the world's greatest centres of classical ballet training.〔http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ellies-Chance-Ballet-School-Diaries/dp/0439963702 Book review from Amazon, citing the Royal Ballet School as being world famous〕〔http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6336595.stm BBC News article, citing the Royal Ballet School as world famous〕〔http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/13735/royal-ballet-to-welcome-in-bbc-cameras Article from the Stage, citing the Royal Ballet School as world famous〕 The School's aim is to train and educate outstanding classical ballet dancers for The Royal Ballet (based at the Royal Opera House in London) and Birmingham Royal Ballet. Admission to the School is based purely on talent and potential, regardless of academic ability or personal circumstances, and more than 90% of current students rely on financial support to attend the School.〔http://www.royalballetschool.org.uk/training/full-time-courses/fees/ Page on The Royal Ballet School website confirming the figure〕 The school is based over two sites, White Lodge, Richmond Park (for students aged 11–16) and Covent Garden (for students from 16–19 years old) based in purpose-built studios on Floral Street, adjacent to the Royal Opera House. The Royal Ballet School has, for generations, produced dancers and choreographers of international renown, including Dame Margot Fonteyn, Dame Beryl Grey, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Darcey Bussell, Alessandra Ferri and Viviana Durante, as well as current Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare. Graduates of the school have also achieved employment in musical theatre, contemporary and jazz dance, television and film. == History == In 1926, the Irish-born dancer Ninette de Valois founded the ''Academy of Choreographic Art'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Royal Ballet School - History ) 〕 a dance school for girls and the predecessor of today's Royal Ballet School. Her intention was to form a repertory ballet company and school, leading her to collaborate with the English theatrical producer and theatre owner Lilian Baylis. Baylis owned the Old Vic theatre and acquired Sadler's Wells theatre in 1925. In 1928, she engaged de Valois to stage dance performances at both theatres and she re-opened Sadler's Wells theatre in 1931, with de Valois' school moving into studios on the site as the Sadler's Wells Ballet School, teaching both boys and girls. At the same time, the Vic-Wells Ballet Company was formed using students of the school and other notable dancers of the era. Both the school and the ballet company developed quickly and after ballet performances ceased at the Old Vic, the ballet company was renamed the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1946, the company moved to become the resident ballet company at the newly re-opened Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and as a result, in 1947 the school moved from Sadler's Wells to premises in Barons Court, with academic education being introduced for younger students. Following rapid expansion, in 1955 the school secured the premises at White Lodge in Richmond Park, London. This was established at the time as the Royal Ballet 'Lower School', a residential boarding school for children aged 11–16, combining general education and vocational ballet training. The Royal Ballet School 'Upper School' was established at the school's existing premises in Barons Court with students studying ballet on a full-time basis between the ages of 16–19. In October 1956, a Royal Charter was granted officially linking the ballet company and school and they became The Royal Ballet School and Royal Ballet Company. A second smaller company still performed at Sadler's Wells and toured around the UK and this became the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet. In 1990, the Sadler's Wells company moved to become the resident ballet company at the Birmingham Hippodrome, in Birmingham, where it was renamed Birmingham Royal Ballet, forming a new association with the Elmhurst School for Dance in 2002. In January 2003, The Royal Ballet School's older students (aged 16–19) moved to a newly constructed studio complex in Floral Street, adjacent to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, where The Royal Ballet remains the resident ballet company. A bridge was constructed between the school and the Opera House, linking the school with the theatre and The Royal Ballet Company's own studios. The designer of the bridge received an architectural award〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-worldfamous-architect-the-cancer-victim-and-the-dream-that-turned-into-a-glittering-prize-731786.html Article citing the award winning architecture of the Bridge of Aspiration〕 and it is known as the ''Bridge of Aspiration''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Ballet School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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