Exchanges

Exchange performance, July 2026

The performance given on 31 July 2026, during the annual exchange with PP and Co Alfa Ballet Works, in Tokyo. That bond lives on from school to school: shared lessons, intensives and performances given together, through exchanges that have become a tradition of the school.

31 July 2026 · 36 photographs

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In the dressing room, two students do their make-up at the lit mirror.

In the dressing room, a dresser adjusts a student's headdress.

The performance dresses hanging on their rail in the dressing room.

A view of the dressing room, an older student making up a younger one at the mirrors.

Two students in character costumes, ready in the dressing room corridor.

A student in a blue tutu, full figure, in the dressing room corridor.

Three students sitting in the wings, by the black curtain.

In the wings, a dancer in a white tutu watches the stage.

A pas de deux in white tutu, both figures complete against the deep blue.

A dancer in a white tutu, in arabesque, against the deep blue.

The children of the party in cream dresses, holding hands in front of the great clock.

A child on a wooden horse among the party guests.

A guest in a dark coat leads the children through the party dance.

A student in a pink dress, led in the dance by the lit tree.

A student in a pink dress dances with her doll in front of the tree.

The soldier in red raises his sword, the stage bathed in red light.

The soldier in red and the student in a pale dress, hand in hand before the snowy forest.

Dancers in white tutus under the falling snow, in blue light.

Two dancers in white tutus at the centre of the corps de ballet, under the snow.

A wide view of the whole company in front of the great painted set.

A couple in red and gold character costumes, the skirt in full flight.

Three dancers in blue grey costumes, arms raised.

Four students in red character costumes, in a line in front of the set.

A student in a red and blue character costume, hands on hips.

A trio of students in black and white costumes, arabesques hand in hand.

Two students face to face in black and white costumes.

A student in a black and white tutu, in retiré, full figure.

Three students in pink dresses step forward together.

A line of students in pink dresses, leaning in the same impulse.

A group of four dancers, the ballerina in pink at the centre.

A pas de deux in a peach tutu, the dancer in retiré supported by her partner.

A pas de deux, the dancer carried by her partner in warm light.

A dancer in a peach tutu in her variation, full figure.

A student in a pale dress leans toward her doll, in front of the tree in the half-light.

The final bow, the whole company gathered in front of the great painted set.

At the bows, the youngest students offer their bouquets to the dancers.

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