Northern Ballet School

Following a variety of Industry Workshops and performance opportunities throughout the year, as well as Agent Panel Days in both Manchester and London, many of our 2026 Graduates have successfully secured Agent Representation. Huge congratulations to you all - we can’t wait to see what you do next. Also, a big shout out to our Creative Futures Team - Laura Keeling and Adam McCoy for working tirelessly to arrange all our industry facing events, as well as supporting and mentoring our graduates as they enter professional life.

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Earlier this term our wonderful Year 3 Jazz Focus students were invited to appear in the MM Jazz Showcase - For the Love of Jazz, presenting selected material from the NBS Spring Show - TRIBE.

MM Jazz Company, founded by NBS alumni Martina and Melissa Gumbs, provides post graduate training and open classes with a variety of established faculty, as well as visiting professionals and guest teachers, across Manchester and the North West. We are hugely grateful to Martina and Melissa for providing yet another fantastic opportunity for our graduates-in-waiting to perform in front of an invited audience of Agents and Industry Contacts, alongside peers, graduates, and established working professionals. Swipe for a glimpse at rehearsals.

Our amazing Year 3 Jazz Focus students took time out of their busy schedule of Summer Show rehearsals to participate in their final Industry workshop of the year.

We were pleased to welcome Natalie Weetman from Haven Holidays, who delivered a presentation, as well as a Q&A alongside NBS graduates Emily Biel and Lucy Cheetham, giving real insight into life as a Production Dancer at a UK resort. This was followed by a choreography workshop led by the inspirational Graeme Pickering. Yet other fantastic opportunity for our graduates to make industry connections, provided by our Creative Futures Team.

Some recent photos of the Classical Focus students taken during their enrichment workshops with the fabulous Miss Christina Gibbs & Mr Ryan Upton.
Miss Gibbs taught repertoire, introduced the ladies to the 4Pointe training system created by Lynne Charles, along with taking the Y3 students for Audition Technique. Mr Upton spent several days choreographing and rehearsing a piece for our upcoming show 'Trailblazers'. ��A huge thanks for such an inspirational and enjoyable few days!

An extremely busy few weeks as our students complete their end of year assessments. Pictured are Y2 & Y3 Classical Focus students after assessment in their two Key Skills: Ballet and Contemporary. Well done everyone!

Huge congratulations to Jazz Focus graduate Ellè Cullen who is currently in rehearsals in South Africa and will be joining the Costa Deliziosa as Production Dancer, sailing the Mediterranean for Costa Cruises. Have a wonderful contract Ellè, we are so very proud of you.

We are thrilled to announce that Classical Focus graduate Kezia Coulson will be joining the cast of Saturday Night Fever this summer, as Maria/Ensemble, playing at the beautiful open air Festungsarena in Austria, as part of Musical Sommer Kufstein. Kezia we are so very proud of your continued success - wishing you the most wonderful season.

Last week we were delighted to welcome Jazz Focus graduate Joseph Hobson back to the Dancehouse. Home between back-to-back contracts for Royal Caribbean Cruises, Joe made time to come in and deliver workshops in Audition Technique and Choreography, as well as sharing industry knowledge and professional insight with our Year 3 students. Such a valuable opportunity for growth and development. Thank you so much Joe, we are super proud of you!