This week's Spotlight Saturday features American musical theatre choreographer Bob Fosse. Bob Fosse, 'Give a Girl a Break', 1953 Robert Louis Fosse was born June 23 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, to Cyril and Sara Alice Fosse. He attended dance schools as a child, and began dancing professionally at 13, when he teamed up with Charles Gaff to form The Riff Brothers. After high school, Fosse enlisted in the US Navy, and was assigned to an entertainment unit. With the variety show,

This week's #ThrowbackThursday features our 2011 seminar Madagascar. I hope everyone's looking forward to this year's seminar, Beauty and the Beast. Students show off their facepaint, once again courtesy of Jacqui The Zebras are taught their routine Our youngest ballet students wait their turn with their gorgeous masks King Julian (Selene) and the Lemurs in 'Move It' Marty (Tyne) and the Zebras Marty (Tyne) Junior Jazz students create the plane Students watch others learning

This week's Tutu Tuesday features Anna Pavlova. Enjoy! - Selene

This week's Spotlight Saturday features American choreographer Merce Cunningham, known for his exceptional influence on American modern dance. Cunningham was born Mercier Philip Cunningham on April 16 1919 in Centralia, Washington D.C. He began studying dance aged 12. After high school, he attended the Cornish School of Fine and Applied Arts in Seattle, Washington for two years. In 1938, he studied at Mills College with dancer and choreographer Lester Horton, and in 1939 move

Following on with our theme, #ThrowbackThursday now jumps back a few years to our 2006 seminar, Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Once again, we had the fabulous Jacqui doing face-paint for the students. This year's seminar, Beauty and the Beast, is coming up soon on April 8, so don't forget to enrol! Emily poses as Aslan the Lion Lucy demonstrates the make-up for Mr. Tumnus, the Faun Our littlest students as snowflakes Three snowflakes Lucy Pevensie (Finlay) mee

It's that time of the week! Tutu Tuesday features Lucinda Dunn in Don Quixote; she has recently announced her retirement... - Selene

This week's Spotlight Saturday features forgotten Russian star Olga Spessivtseva. Olga Spessivtseva, 'Giselle' Olga Alexandrovna Spessivtseva was born on July 18 1895, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. When her father, an opera singer, died, she was sent to an orphanage in St. Petersburg with known connections to the theatre. In 1906, she was accepted into the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg; her teachers there included Claudia Kulichevskaya, Evgenia Sokolova, and Agrippina

This week's #ThrowbackThursday skips forward a few years to our 2009 seminar Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, based on the beloved musical. Jemima (Selene), Mr. Potts (Shinae) and Jeremy (Natasha) Vulgaria's two spies (Finlay and Tyne) in 'Think Vulgar!' Sara as Grandpa with our narrator Suzee in the background Students sing along Senior Jazz as the dotty inventors in 'Roses of Success' Becky as the Childcatcher Senior Ballet students dance the 'Bombie Samba' 'Doll on a Music Box': K

Today's Tutu Tuesday is Anastasia Matvienko! - Selene

This week's Spotlight Saturday features prolific choreographer Marius Petipa, who created over fifty ballets and revived some forty others. Petipa, 1898 Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa was born on March 11 1818, in Marseille, France. His parents were Jean Antoine Petipa, the esteemed ballet master, and his mother, Victorine Grasseau, was a tragic actress and drama teacher. Petipa had five siblings, two of whom died young. When he was only 3 months old, the family moved to Bruss