Principal
Rebecca Fraiz
Qualifications:
- Graduate from The Royal Ballet School's highest teaching qualification - Diploma of Dance Teaching. Specialising in vocational training.
- Royal Academy of Dance - Certificate in Teaching Studies / Pedagogy.
Expertise:
- A current Senior and Mid-Associate teacher in London, Covent Garden for The Royal Ballet School's Associate Programme. An Associate teacher since 2012.
- Full-time teacher at White Lodge, the Lower School of The Royal Ballet School in 2016-2017.
- A panellist for nationwide preliminary auditions selecting new students for full-time training / Associate programme at The Royal Ballet School.
- Teaching preliminary and final audition classes for The Royal Ballet School.
Highlights:
- Artistic Teacher rehearsing the students of The Royal Ballet School in The Royal Ballet Company's performances "The Nutcracker" (production by Sir Peter Wright) and Woolf Works (production by Wayne McGregor).
- Choreographing class demonstration for The Royal Ballet School's 2017 end of year performance at Opera Holland Park.
- Part of The Royal Ballet School's Associate Outreach team teaching in Livorno, Italy.
- A former member of the Artistic faculty teaching at The Royal Ballet School's White Lodge Summer Intensives.
- A member of the Artistic faculty teaching at The Royal Ballet School's One-day intensives.
- A teacher for The Royal Ballet School’s Spring Course 2018, held in Hong Kong.
- A guest teacher for the English National Ballet School.
- A former Prep Associate teacher for Central School of Ballet .
- A former teacher on Central School of Ballet’s International Summer Courses and various Intensive days.
- Performance experiences at theatres such as The Royal Opera House, Opera Holland Park and Sadler’s Wells.
Sculptured by the famous dancer and sculptor Tom Merrifield, called ‘The Black Swan’.
