FRANK FREEMAN
FRAD ARAD PDTC (Dip)

Frank Freeman is an international freelance teacher and choreographer, and a Vocational Grades Examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance. Entirely trained at The Royal Ballet School, White Lodge and the Upper School, he graduated into the main company of The Royal Ballet at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He was also a member of The Royal Ballet’s educational group “Ballet For All” and later joined English National Ballet.

Frank is a founder patron of The National Youth Ballet Of Great Britain, and his ballet The Four Seasons, choreographed for the company in 2002, was revived in 2004 for the Birmingham Hippodrome and the London Palladium. His latest ballet, I Palpiti to music by Paganini, was choreographed for Scotland’s Ballet West. He writes articles and reviews for the leading dance magazines, and he was a member of the artistic panel for the creation of The Royal Academy’s two manuals The Foundations and The Progressions of Classical Ballet Technique. His articles on technique are now required reading world-wide for the RAD’s Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies.

He has frequently taught and lectured on The Royal Academy’s Professional Dancer’s Teaching Diploma Course, of which he is a graduate, and he is regularly involved in the training of new examiners. He served for two years as a member of the judging panel for dance for the Sir Laurence Olivier Awards, and he is now conducting a series of interviews for the sound archive Voices of British Ballet.

In April 2000 he was awarded a Fellowship by The Royal Academy and was co-opted onto the Artistic Committee. He has taught at most of Britain’s leading vocational schools including both White Lodge and the Royal Ballet Upper School. His current teaching commitments include Performers College, Guildford School of Acting, Central School of Ballet, Ballet West, and The Royal Ballet School.

He has recently been appointed Artistic Mentor to Elmhurst School of Dance in association with the Birmingham Royal Ballet, and in 2006 he was invited to join the Board of Governors of The Royal Ballet