

Revise and Revitalise Adage : an in-depth exploration of adage
Domingo 25 Maio 2025
9:30am – 12:30pm (NZT)


Booking Deadline:
Segunda-feira 19 Maio 2025
Event Date:
Domingo 25 Maio 2025
Event Time:
9:30am – 12:30pm (NZT)
Location:
Available Online?
Yes
Who’s it for?
RAD Registered Teachers and ballet teachers
Fee:
Early Bird Member – $95 NZD
Early Bird Non Member – $125 NZD
(Early Bird available until 10 May 2025)
Contact:
office@rad.org.nz

Revise and Revitalise Adage: an in-depth exploration of adage movements that feature in all RAD levels, with student demonstrators in the studio.
Aims:
The aims of this webinar are to:
- Explore in-depth, adage steps/movements that feature through the RAD levels through, discussion, demonstration, & practical tasks
- Revitalise understanding of adage vocabulary and heighten motivation through interactive sharing of ideas
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the webinar, you will have;
- Revised analysis and recognised progression from a selection of adage steps from the RAD syllabi
- Be more aware of how posture, weight placement, line, spatial awareness, and coordination of port de bras, plus musicality can improve the precision and quality of movement required of adage
- Be revitalised in the approach to teaching adage steps from the RAD syllabi
- Feel included in the RAD teaching Membership
Recommended preparation:
Some prior reflection and identification of steps that teachers are unsure of or wish to question.
Take an adage step, consider the following: a. Preparation weight transfer from two legs to one b. The posture as the height of the extension increases c. The feeling of line through the body in the given end pose or position d. The anticipation of port de bras e. How use of space/alignment/turning can affect control, weight placement and line.
Have available and or revise the adage section of The Foundations of Classical Ballet Technique:
Ryman, Ronda. The Foundations of Classical Ballet Technique. Royal Academy of Dance. Revised ed. 2013.
Ryman, Rhonda. The Progressions of Classical Ballet Technique. Royal Academy of Dance. 2002.
CPD Hours
3 hours
Tutor
Sue Nicholls
Venue
This Course is available on Zoom only. Please note that it will be held in New Zealand time.
Fees
Fees – Early Bird (available until 16 May 2025)
Early Bird Member – $95
Early Bird Non Member – $125
After 16 May 2025
Member – $125
Non Member – $150
Further information
Zoom information
Please ensure that you have both video and audio functions on your computer. You must have the video switched on throughout the course, but you will be asked to mute the audio when not engaged in discussion or group work. You also need to ensure that you have enough space to participate fully.
Due to privacy considerations and the importance of maintaining the trust and confidence of our participants and tutors, we do not record CPD courses. It is essential for participants to feel confident that they can fully engage in their training, knowing that their comments or images will not be shared, taken out of context, or misrepresented.
Payment
If paying by internet banking (please quote your full name as the reference and email a copy of the Internet Banking confirmation to office@rad.org.nz) Payment should be made to: Account Name: Royal Academy of Dance Bank Name: ANZ Bank Account No: 01 0517 0198208 00
If paying by Credit Card – we will send an invoice and there will be an option to pay by debit/credit card. Please note this will incur a surcharge.
How to book
Fill out the form below and submit, we will be in touch within 2 business days with payment information and confirmation of registration. Please note payment of the fee secures your place.
Terms and Conditions
Fees
- All fees are inclusive of GST. The Academy reserves the right to amend fees where either tax changes take place during a calendar year or circumstances, such as the introduction of or a devaluation of a currency.
- We reserve the right to charge a surcharge for application forms received after the closing date.
- 3.Payment for activities should be submitted separately from payment for resources.
Closing Dates
Closing dates will be published locally, but the general rule is that closing dates is two weeks prior to the date of the Seminar.
- Applicants are asked to apply early to ensure a place as each Seminar has a limited number of places.
General Terms and Conditions
- All applications and payments will be processed in order of receipt.
- Correspondence will be sent primarily via email, if the email address is incorrect the RAD cannot be held responsible for missed or misdirected email communications.
- Written confirmation of your application will not be sent until the closing date.
- Applications are non-transferable.
- All participants must be aged 16 and over.
- A Tax Invoice/Receipt will be issued and posted after the course together with the Certificate of Attendance and Transcript.
- The Academy reserves the right to alter the advertised programme and/or tutor without prior notice. The information in this and other printed or electronic brochures/notices is correct at the time of print or going online.
- If participant information is not received it is the responsibility of the individual who completed the booking to contact CPD department to arrange for the information to be reissued:
- Any CPD Value that an activity may carry is awarded in accordance with the Rules and Regulations of the RAD CPD Scheme. Any CPD Value accrued cannot be transferred between applicants.
Withdrawals, Transfers and Refunds
Participants who withdraw voluntarily will have their activity fees refunded, as follows:
a. Withdrawals before the final closing date will receive a 90% refund.
b. Withdrawals between the final closing date and six (6) working days prior to the activity will receive a 50% refund.
c. There will be no refund for withdrawals made five (5) or fewer working days prior to the start of the activity.
d. Participants who have to withdraw due to injury or illness, either before or after the closing date but before the activity starts, will receive a 90% refund, subject to the receipt of medical evidence.
Participants are strongly advised not to book travel or accommodation until receipt of final participant confirmation that the activity is taking place, usually 5 working days prior to the activity start date. The RAD will not accept liability for travel, accommodation or any other expenses incurred by participants.
Insurance
Participants are advised to consider taking out insurance against withdrawal due to injury/illness, medical treatment, or hospitalisation, or due to personal or family reasons which might prevent them completing the activity. Participants with an existing injury attend at their own risk.
Force Majeure
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