03/11/2026
Super happy to receive the long awaited exam results!
Royal Academy of Dance Grade 3 Ballet Examination- Completed with a High Distinction
I didn’t have the opportunity to take Ballet lessons or exams as a child but always “knew” I wanted to learn and practice Ballet. I started taking classes casually here and there as an adult, taking a big break to be a full time and found myself taking Adult Ballet classes again with Miss Anne Anne Kingsford when my youngest started Ballet classes. I soon found Balanced Ballerinas …. I was just shy of 40, because I remember treating myself to a private class with Georgia Dostal for my 40th Bday. I have not stopped since, and I will be 54 in a few days. I always craved the discipline and repetitiveness of an exam syllabus and the challenge to sit (or dance, I should say) an exam. I had given up on that passion but thanks to Georgia and Meg Bradshaw for this opportunity you have created for adults like me to give RAD Exams a go, I have been able to live out this childhood dream of mine; learning the discipline of Ballet!! 🩰
It feels so good, so hard, but so right and somehow so familiar.
Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏🏽
I am forever grateful to be living my Ballet dream, or… well… part of it… (because I will never be dancing for a living, on stage, in pointe shoes, in a Professional Ballet Company), but I feel like this is a perfectly balanced way of enjoying the art of Ballet within what my body will allow me, at this point in my life, to enjoy. 🩰
Royal Academy of Dance
