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"The key to your professional future"
New English Contemporary Ballet School is the only full-time vocational dance school in the UK nested alongside its professional parent company. We are an independent dance college and like other leading dance institutions such as the Royal Ballet School – NECBS has chosen to remain INDEPENDANT from QUANGOS and excessive regulation, instead we have chosen concentrate on the best interests of our students, adopting the route of professional respect and recognition for the courses we provide!
NECBS is extremely proud of the relationship with our parent dance company. This guarantees our students the sort of close association with the performance industry that only a professional company can; supporting training, enhancing performance and creating genuine career opportunities for its graduates.
The high level of training NECBS provides enables our students to engage with the profession at the highest possible level. We offer a range of accredited and industry relevant programmes to best suit the needs of our students.
Above all, our students become rounded artists and performers, dancers capable of offering employers the level of versatility required, rather than “boxing” or labeling them and thus limiting their true potential. The depth and quality of our courses provide a complete preparation for entering the world of professional dance performance, the commercial sector and Musical Theatre.
Niall McMahon
Artistic Director
New English Contemporary Ballet
Current Programmes include;
Level 3 - Foundation in Dance Instruction
Level 4 - Certificate in Dance Education
NECBS Diploma in Dance Technique & Performance
NECBS Graduate Diploma
NECB2 – Junior Company
New Programmes (Entry September 2010)
Foundation Course in Dance (level 2) 16+ on entry
3 Year Full-time Vocational Course (levels 3 - 5) 16 and above on entry
New English Contemporary Ballet School-PATRONS
Craig Revel Horwood
Craig’s professional training began in his hometown of Ballarat, Australia. He later moved to Melbourne and appeared in productions including WEST SIDE STORY, the Australian and New Zealand tour of THE DANNY LA RUE SHOW, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, ME AND MY GIRL, OLYMPUS ON MY MIND, SUGAR BABIES, JACK AND THE BEANSTALK and LADIES NIGHT
On arriving in Europe Craig joined the famous company at the LIDO Du PARIS as a dancer in PANACHE and then as principle singer in FORMIDABLE at the MOULIN ROUGE, finding himself a year later in the UK tour of CATS in Edinburgh and Dublin. In the West End, Craig has performed in CATS, playing the part of ‘Munkustrap’ at the New London Theatre, MISS SAIGON at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane as Dance Captain and was an original cast member playing the part of ‘Harry’ and Dance Captain of CRAZY FOR YOU at the Prince Edward Theatre. This took him to New York and Baltimore in the USA then to Germany at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin. Craig then went on to re-create the show for SUSAN STROMAN in South Africa.
Television credits include CHILDREN IN NEED BBC, TVAM Breakfast show, THE 1992 ROYAL VARIETY COMMAND PERFORMANCE for the BBC at the Dominion Theatre and THE 1993 LAURENCE OLIVIER AWARDS. Since the end of 1994, Craig concentrated on his directorial and choreographic career, but in recent years, has made a return to the small screen, appearing as a judge on the hit TV series STRICTLY COME DANCING for the BBC.
Richard Wherlock
Richard Wherlock was born in Bristol, UK. After studying at London’s prestigious Ballet Rambert School he joined their company as a dancer. Wherlock was Ballet Director at Hagen Theatre in Germany from 1991 to 1996, then spent three seasons as director of the Lucerne Ballet before moving to Komische Oper, Berlin as artistic director and choreographer of BerlinBallett. He has been director and head choreographer of Ballett Basel since the 2001/2002 season, and artistic director of the renowned festival, Basel tanzt, since 2004.
He has worked as choreographer with the companies Tanzforum Köln, Ballet de la Normandie, Scapino Ballet, Rotterdam, English Dance Theatre, Finnish Dance Theatre, Helsinki, Ballett Staatstheater, Braunschweig, Zürcher Ballett Juniors, Romanian National Ballet, Innsbrucker Ballett at Tiroler Landestheater, The Icelandic Ballet, Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine, Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet de l'Opéra de Nice, aalto ballett theatre, Essen, Europa Danse (Unesco),Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Singapore Dance Theatre, Ballett der Vereinigten Bühnen, Graz, Introdans in Arnheim,Holland, Ballett des Badischen Staatstheaters, Karlsruhe and Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro, San Martin/Argentina. He has also created a full-length ballet for Les Etoiles de l’Opéra National de Paris.