Happy Halloween! This week's Tutu Tuesday is Sarah Lamb in costume for Liam Scarlett's ballet Frankenstein at The Royal Ballet. - Selene

Today's Tutu Tuesday is Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev in Laurencia with the Mikhailovsky Theatre. - Selene

This week's #ThrowbackThursday features Balanchine's ballet Agon. Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams Agon is a work for twelve dancers, choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Igor Stravinsky. Balanchine started the work in 1953, but was interrupted. He did not resume the ballet until 1956. Stravinsky's music first premiered separately to the ballet, in Los Angeles conducted by Robert Craft on June 17, 1957. Stravinsky's composition took some years to complete, and repres

It's Tutu Tuesday! Here's Anastasia Matvienko in a gorgeous purple tutu. - Selene

The last competitions for the year have finished! The TFDA October competitions ran from Thursday to Sunday - well done to all students who danced! We're now moving onto our annual end of year concert - this year's theme is Dance Around the World, to be held on December 3. It was also the last competitions for two of our senior students, Emily and Samantha. They're headed off to university next year - best of luck, girls! Amelie in costume for her Demi Character 'Heidi' Amber

Romeo and Juliet isn't the only Shakespeare play to have been turned into a ballet. This week's #ThrowbackThursday features Christopher's Wheeldon's three act ballet The Winter's Tale. The ballet follows the plot of Shakespeare's lesser known play. Leontes, king of Sicilia, is madly jealous, believing that his pregnant wife Hermione is having an affair with his best friend, Polixenes, king of Bohemia. Hermione denies it, but Leontes doesn't believe her and has her infant daug

It's Tutu Tuesday! Here's Svetlana Zakharova and Jacopo Tissi in The Sleeping Beauty at La Scala Theatre. - Selene

This week's Spotlight Saturday features little-known ballerina and actress Jenny Hasselqvist. Born Matilda Elizabeth Jenny Hasselqvist (sometimes Hasselquist) in Stockholm, July 31 1894 to a Swedish MP and his wife, she studied at the Swedish Opera's ballet school from 1906. She debuted as a ballerina in her teens, performing with the Royal Swedish Ballet from 1910. Mikhail Fokine chose her for solo roles in La Sylphide and Cleopatra in 1913. She was quickly promoted to prima

We've just finished five days of competitions in Hawera. All the girls danced very well with some good results, and now it's time for a short break before the TFDA October Competitions next week. Here's a few pictures: Estelle, Danica, and Katie before their Jazz solos Bayly ready for her new Musical Theatre 'Mother Gothel' from Tangled - well done on your 3rd, Bayly Danica's brand new jazz costume, courtesy of June Butt from One White Swan Anneka before her Tap solo Emily re

Last week we had Miss Spooner in the studio to examine our Junior Ballet and Medal Test students. Here's a few pictures from our two days our exams: Adult Ballet before their Medal Test Teen Hip Hop Little Jazz Medals Girls' Hip Hop Warm ups for Modern Medals Classical Ballet I Classical Ballet II girls warm up in Studio B Estelle and Danica ready to go in for their Modern Medal Tahlia, Eden, and Felecia ready for Modern Medals Senior Jazz girls warm up in Studio B Estelle re