Highlights from a New Year at Central

A new cohort of undergraduates joined Central in September from around the world with students from more than 10 different countries. The students have spent their first two weeks at school getting to know the studios and their tutors with Central’s Higher Education warmup weeks. The warmup weeks provide students with the opportunity to get to know each other and take their first classes at Central whilst also settling into their new lives living independently in London.

Highlights from this year’s warmup weeks include a whole school welcome from directors Mark Osterfield, Kate Coyne, and Dr Jamieson Dryburgh, the opportunity to watch New English Ballet Theatre rehearse in the school’s Gable Studio Theatre, and a drama workshop delivered by actor and director Robert Perkins.

Associate students were welcomed back to Central with the 2023-24 induction day. This gave new Associate Programme dancers the opportunity to find their way around the studios and meet their teachers as well as benefit from expert advice from external specialists. Speakers from One Dance UK attended the day to give a talk on Confidence and Anxiety in dancers and a pointe shoe fitter from Freed of London was on hand to offer fittings for the young dancers.

Welcoming new students to the school is an exciting moment in Central’s academic year where the School community comes back together and looks ahead to a new year of inspirational dance training and experiences.