Delighted to announce that after a year as a Junior Associate, Grace has now successfully achieved a place as a Senior on the London Studios Associate programme – Well Done Grace !  Grace has been with BAD since she was tiny and has been on our Performing Arts Course for a number of years taking advantage of all the great teachers we have at BAD in various subjects.  She had been an Associate at the London Ballet Company for a few years also but was accepted as a Junior Associate to London Studios last year.  She has worked very hard for this even during lockdown attending our many online classes and privates too.

We are so lucky to have lots of connections with London Studios.  We are also very pleased to announce that after completing a foundation year at LIPA, Steph is now going to do her degree course at London Studios, just as both Vanessa and Charlotte (previously BAD Company) transferred after their foundation years and graduated this year. Lydia – also previously BAD  – graduated this year from London Studios.  Also,  our guest teacher Clare (also previoulsy BAD Company) graduated from there and teaches for them sometimes having been out around the world dancing for 4 years, we hope to see her more regularly when we can reopen again and now also her cohort friend Abby is teaching online classes for us and teaches regularly for London Studios having spent some dancing in The Bodyguard in Germany.  Also Jess (previously BAD Company), before she went to Creative Academy was a London Studios Senior Associate.  Grace is in great company and very capable hands at London Studios  – we are very excited for her !

We really feel for all our vocational graduates this year (also Harriet from Bird and Morgan from Italia Conti as well as those above) who didnt get to complete some of their final productions or assessments and performances in the way they had hoped.  They have launched as professionals in to this world where currently dance studios and theatres are unable to open.  We are hoping it will change soon and maybe if the studios can open very soon, we can benefit from their teaching some workshops for us.  Then, hopefully they can get snapped up and dance in the theatres and productions as they should be doing out in the professional world !