Registration
will be at the Royal Opera House Stage Door,
Floral St, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD,
at 10am on Saturday 29th August.
Please collect your backstage pass from the Stage Door and make your way to the MacMillan studio on the fifth floor. (blue core lift to S+5 and turn right, first studio on the right) If you are unsure, we will have helpers to point you in the right direction!
Schedule
The schedule for the Weekend will be on the board outside the ROH canteen on +5.
Saturday evening -
There will be a break from 6pm til 7.30pm, during which you are welcome to go out into Covent Garden to eat if you wish, followed by classes til 9.30/10pm.
Sunday morning - Classes will commence at 10am.
Sunday evening -
The course will finish at approx 6pm on the Sunday evening. People meeting you at the end of the course are asked please to wait for you at the Stage Door.
Meals and snacks will be available to buy in the Royal Opera House Staff and Artists’ Canteen at subsidised prices.
Royal Opera House Information
You will be given your ROH backstage pass upon registration, which you should show at the Stage Door when entering the theatre and carry with you at all times in the building.
The Royal Opera House is a working theatre, with many hazards and potentially dangerous equipment and machinery, and the backstage areas can be quite a maze. The studios we will be using and the canteen are all situated on the 5th floor of the "blue core" (with the exception of the De Valois studio which is on the 4th floor!), so for your own safety please do not stray from this area, other than when going as a group on tours etc. Our meeting place will always be the canteen and this is where you should assemble for backstage tours and workshops.
The course dates coincide with the Company’s return to Covent Garden after the summer break. Company dancers will be trying to get back into the swing of things after five weeks of inactivity and may not appreciate too many prying eyes at studio windows...! Though we want you to enjoy your time at the Opera House and soak up as much of the atmosphere as possible, please remember that it is a place of work and so we would ask you to respect the privacy of the dancers and people who work there. You are incredibly lucky to be able to share these fantastic facilities with the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera and we feel sure you would not want anything to jeopardise your being able to do so in the future!
Uniform
For recognition purposes around the theatre, please wear your yellow Wells dance top (a small supply will be available to buy on the first day for anybody who needs one!) and black jazz pants at all times when in the Opera House. Girls should wear black leotards etc, and boys black/white, for all classes.
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