The RAD is one of the world’s most influential dance education and training organisations. With its global headquarters in London, the RAD works locally and around the world to bring dance to diverse communities, widen access to dance and share the benefits and wellbeing that dance brings.
With a strong global membership presence in over 85 countries, each year around 250,000 dancers learn the RAD syllabus and take exams. Over 1,000 students are enrolled in in-person and distance-learning dance teacher training programmes.
The RAD empowers people through dance education and enjoyment and believes that ‘every body’ should have the opportunity to learn to dance.
Canada’s National Ballet School has embraced the evolution of dance for over 60 years, establishing itself as a vibrant, internationally-recognized arts organization. Graduates of NBS have become some of the world’s top ballet dancers, choreographers and administrators. At the same time, NBS has broadened accessibility to dance through innovative community outreach initiatives.
Dancing Classrooms cultivates essential life skills in children through the joyful art and practice of social dance. Through standards-based, in-school residencies and out of school programs, we use the vocabulary of social and partner dance to support the next generation of global citizens and leaders.