Dancing de Valois: Teaching the 1947 Syllabus | University of Roehampton

Dr Geraldine Morris, Reader in Dance at the University of Roehampton, has created this research project in collaboration with the Royal Ballet School. Funded by the Linbury Trust, it was filmed at the University of Roehampton by Hugo Glendinning and shows students embodying the dance syllabus, devised by Ninette de Valois in 1947.

The purpose was to examine how far today’s technically accomplished dancers would enjoy and benefit from studying the earlier work and whether this was achievable. The film includes a discussion with the dancers, in which they describe the experience and how it will inform their approach to past choreography. At the end of the film, the dancers noted how closely linked the dance movement was to the Ashton choreography they had learned the previous year.

A BA module at Roehampton: Embodying History will use the film with third year students to help them understand earlier techniques and choreography. They can then embrace physically the different values prevalent in nineteenth and twentieth century dances.

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