The RAD is one of the world’s most influential dance education and training organisations, with its global headquarters in London. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn to dance.
The RAD’s patron is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and our President is Dame Darcey Bussell, DBE.
Our higher education programmes are regulated and a recent Ofsted inspection found the RAD to be an ‘outstanding’ provider of initial teacher education. The RAD’s examinations are recognised by Ofqual and contribute to UCAS points.
There are currently over 1,000 students in full-time or part-time dance teacher training programmes and each year the RAD’s renowned classical ballet examination syllabus is taught to thousands of young people worldwide, with around a quarter of a million pupils per year going on to take our exams.
RAD Examination sessions at our studios
EVERY SUMMER
RAD Uniform
Visit rdb.mydancestore.co.uk - (do not use search engine) for your Ballet uniform using the school code RDBI. Click on the logon or register button in the middle of the screen to create your account and password.
Ballet Term Dates
Term 2 commenced Tuesday 18th April and concludes on Saturday 27th May.
Katie Trow
A recent photo shoot with Katie Trow, and members of grade 3 at our studios, welcomed her back from her now permanent position at the Royal Academy of Dance in London where she graduated in 2020 with BA (Hons) in Ballet.
Katie started at Richardz in Baby Ballet, 3 years old and remained here for 14 years passing all grade exams with distinctions and an unprecedented 98% for grade 8 also passing advanced foundation & advanced 1 with distinction.
Soloist performances at English Youth Ballet & Birmingham Royal Ballet at the Birmingham Hippodrome have been regular occurrences.
