Principal

Rebecca Fraiz

Qualifications:

Member of The Royal Ballet School's Teacher Training Fellowship.
Graduate from The Royal Ballet School's Diploma of Dance Teaching. Specialising in vocational training.
Royal Academy of Dance - Certificate in Teaching Studies / Pedagogy.

About:

Rebecca was a Junior Associate of The Royal Ballet School in the 1980s and one of the first London Senior Associates when the programme extended its training to incorporate a Senior Associate programme. At 16, she commenced vocational training at The Royal Ballet School's Upper School under Artistic Director Dame Merle Park DBE. The course built her classical ballet knowledge and technical and artistic skills in preparation for a career as a professional dancer. She gained valuable experience performing repertoire for the School’s performances at The Royal Ballet and Opera and Opera Holland Park.

Rebecca is extremely passionate about the art form and teaching. She has achieved a high level of education in teacher training, graduating from The Royal Ballet School’s Diploma of Dance Teaching, specialising in the vocational teaching strand. She is also certified and holds registered teacher status through the Royal Academy of Dance, in addition to completing her Certificate in Teaching Studies in 2012.

Rebecca was a former Associate teacher for The Royal Ballet School’s Associate programme from 2012-2024, teaching the Senior and Mid levels in London, Covent Garden. She has an expansive teaching career, having taught at several highly-regarded institutions, including Central School of Ballet and English National Ballet School.

Career highlights:

Performance experiences at The Royal Ballet and Opera, Opera Holland Park and Sadler’s Wells Theatre.
Sculptured by the late famous dancer and sculptor Tom Merrifield, called ‘The Black Swan’.
Artistic Teacher at White Lodge, the Lower School of The Royal Ballet School in 2016-2017.
Panellist for The Royal Ballet School’s nationwide preliminary auditions, selecting students for entry into full-time training at the School and for the Associates programme.
Artistic Teacher rehearsing the students of The Royal Ballet School in The Royal Ballet Company's performances Nutcracker (Sir Peter Wright CBE) and Woolf Works (Wayne McGregor CBE).
Artistic Teacher for The Royal Ballet School’s first Spring Intensive to be held in Hong Kong in 2018.
Guest teaching Internationally.
Collaborating with Lindsi Dec and Karel Cruz to deliver the DeCruz & Fraiz Ballet Summer Intensive 2024.