It's almost World Ballet Day 2018! Once again, we're in for a real treat. Three of the world's most prestigious ballet companies combine on Tuesday 2 October for 24 hours of live-streamed rehearsals, company classes, interviews, and backstage secrets. Unfortunately it seems we won't be hearing from The San Francisco Ballet or The National Ballet of Canada this year, but I'm sure The Australian Ballet, The Royal Ballet, and The Bolshoi Ballet, with input from ballet companies

For the last two days, our students have been sitting Ballet grades and Modern medals, showing their hard work to Mrs. Bagshaw. Well done girls! Now we've just got to wait for results... In the meantime, here are some pictures Alison managed to get: Reeve and Amber, Modern Medal Molly and Madison, Modern Medal Maia, Anneka, and Amber, Ballet Stagecraft Medal Elementary Jazz girls stretch before their medal Sam, Alisha and Bayly, Modern Medal G4 Jazz G3 Jazz Modern Medal girls

We're back in the studio archives for this week's #ThrowbackThursday! Good luck to all students sitting ballet and modern exams today and tomorrow - time to show the examiner all your hard work! On another note, it's World Ballet Day next week on 2 October - I'll post the link to where you can watch it in a few days, but if you haven't seen it before, it's definitely worth a watch! Without further ado... Gentry and Rebecca, Restricted Ballet Championship, Easter 1999 Laura, E

It's Tutu Tuesday! Here's Myriam Ould-Braham of the Paris Opera Ballet in a stunning Romantic tutu. - Selene

It is with great sadness that I share the news of Arthur Mitchell's death earlier today. A legendary dancer with the New York City Ballet and student of George Balanchine, in later years he was a beloved teacher and mentor. He paved the way for hundreds of African-American dancers, founding the Dance Theater of Harlem, and will be deeply missed by the dance community in America and the world. He was 84. For a more detailed account of his life, please read my Spotlight post on

It's #ThrowbackThursday! Let's take a look back at 1998. Here's Phoebe in her costume (which is still in the storage room somewhere) for her barefoot 'Potpourri', Labour Weekend, 1998; this barefoot is set to some truly beautiful music from Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade' Kareen with the trophy she won for Restricted Ballet Championship at Easter, 1998; we've still got this gorgeous tutu, but it's now - sadly - too delicate to be worn. Nadine, Jazz solo, Labour Weekend, 1998

It feels like it was just last week that I wrote a post on RNZB's 2018 season - where does the time go? Still, the Royal New Zealand Ballet announced their 2019 season yesterday. We've got some real gems to look forward to, and it's nice to see how artistic director Patricia Barker is balancing brand new works with the classics. New Choreographic Series Caroline Wiley, Fabio Lo Giudice, and Kihiro Kusukami, RNZB There's not much info on this triple bill just yet, but that mig

It's Tutu Tuesday! Here's Natalia Osipova in Giselle. - Selene

We're back in the archives for this week's #ThrowbackThursday! Amy, Easter 1998 Krystal with the trophy for Restricted Ballet Championship, Easter 1998 Phoebe, Easter 1998 Linda Ann, 1998 Kimberley and Stacey, Jazz Duo winners, Easter 1998 Thanks for reading! - Selene

This week's Tutu Tuesday features Ksenia Zhiganshina and Roman Belyakov in The Nutcracker with the Mariinsky Ballet. - Selene