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National Ballet School of Canada

Canada's National Ballet School
Address
400 Jarvis St
Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 2G6
Canada
Coordinates 43°39′50″N 79°22′40″W / 43.66389°N 79.37778°W / 43.66389; -79.37778Coordinates: 43°39′50″N 79°22′40″W / 43.66389°N 79.37778°W / 43.66389; -79.37778
Information
School type Private Ballet school and boarding school for academics
Religious affiliation(s) none
Established 1959 (1959)
Founder Celia Franca
Betty Oliphant
Status Active
Executive Director Grant Troop
Age 11+
Website

Canada's National Ballet School, also commonly known as the National Ballet School of Canada, is a classical ballet school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Along with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, it is a leading provider of professional ballet training in Canada. Many graduates achieve employment with professional ballet companies internationally, most notably with the National Ballet of Canada.

The National Ballet School is the associate school of the National Ballet of Canada, which was formed in 1951 by the English ballet dancer Celia Franca. Franca had previously been a leading dancer with ballet companies in the United Kingdom, before Dame Ninette de Valois recommended her as the best candidate to form a new Canadian ballet company modelled on her own Sadler's Wells Ballet, better known today as The Royal Ballet.

Franca subsequently emigrated to Canada in 1951 and founded the National Ballet of Canada that same year, also hiring the English ballet teacher Betty Oliphant to work with the Company. As the Company became established, Franca and Oliphant decided it was essential to establish their own ballet academy to train dancers for the Company. This led to the formation of the school in 1959, as a feeder school to the Company.

Oliphant became the school's first Artistic Director and having studied the Cecchetti method under Dame Marie Rambert and Antony Tudor, she chose the method as the foundation for the School's training programme. The Cecchetti method taught at the school was the original syllabus devised by Enrico Cecchetti himself in collaboration with the dance writer and historian Cyril Beaumont, and which is today preserved and examined worldwide by the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. Students of the school were notably assessed by examiners from the United Kingdom, to ensure complete impartiality.


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