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25-536: Adventures in Motion Pictures (AMP) was established in 1987 by a group of students from London's Laban Centre , including Matthew Bourne, Catherine White (now Malone), Emma Gladstone, Susan Lewis, Carrollynne Antoun, David Massingham and Keith Brazil. AMP's productions like Spitfire (1988), parodied the manners of romantic ballet dancers. By 1991, the original members of the company were working outside of AMP, and Bourne held auditions for new dancers, forming

50-460: A National Portfolio Organisation receiving funding from Arts Council England since 2015. AMP or New Adventures have received 12 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations, winning six. Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in Greenwich , London , England. It was formed in 2005 as

75-466: A Saturday music school for exceptional young musicians who are keen on pursuing a musical career. Junior Trinity offers instrumental and vocal tuition for children and young people ages 5–19, along with GCSE and A-Level courses in Music and Music Technology for older students. Many students of Junior Trinity often continue their musical studies at top conservatoires and universities across the country. Trinity

100-496: A company with six core dancers, including Scott Ambler (later founder artistic associate), Etta Murfitt (now associate artistic director), Ben Wright, Ally Fitzpatrick and Jamie Watton. Their first piece together was Town & Country (1991). Subsequent AMP productions included Nutcracker! (1992), Highland Fling (1994), Swan Lake (1995), Cinderella (1997) and The Car Man (2000). In 2000, Bourne formed New Adventures with producer Robert Noble, who became co-director of

125-405: A merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre . The conservatoire has 1,250 undergraduate and postgraduate students based at three campuses in Greenwich (Trinity), Deptford and New Cross (Laban). Trinity College of Music was founded in central London in 1872 by Henry George Bonavia Hunt to improve the teaching of church music. The College began as

150-580: A range of disciplines in the performing arts and arts education and English language learning and teaching . Trinity College London is based at the Blue Fin Building in central London. Trinity College London validated Trinity College of Music's Graduate Diploma (the GTCL ) before it was replaced by the BMus model in 1997. Trinity College of Music has a historical association with Freemasonry , with

175-542: Is an examination board based in London , United Kingdom which offers graded and diploma qualifications across a range of disciplines in the performing arts and English language learning and teaching . Trinity College London has examined over 850,000 candidates in more than 60 countries worldwide. It is a registered charity in England, Wales and Scotland, and its Patron is HRH The Duke of Kent . Trinity College London

200-602: The Church Choral Society , whose diverse activities included choral singing classes and teaching instruction in church music. Gladstone was an early supporter during these years. A year later, in 1873, the college became the College of Church Music, London. In 1876 the college was incorporated as the Trinity College London. Initially, only male students could attend and they had to be members of

225-558: The Church of England . In 1881, the College moved to Mandeville Place off Wigmore Street in central London, which remained its home for over a hundred years. The college took over various neighbouring buildings in Mandeville Place. These were finally united in 1922 with the addition of a Grecian portico, and substantial internal reconstruction to create a first floor concert hall and an impressive staircase. However, other parts of

250-777: The Pritzker Prize in 2001 and who also designed the Tate Modern and the National Stadium in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games ), the centre's building in Deptford won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2003. Herzog and de Meuron collaborated with visual artist Michael Craig-Martin to create the building. The building includes an eco-technological roof known as a "brown roof" . After parts of

275-539: The Royal Naval College (RNC). To make the buildings suitable for Trinity's use and remove the accretions of a century of RNC occupation required a substantial refurbishment programme. Work to provide new recital rooms revealed that the building's core incorporates masonry from the Tudor palace. The overall cost of the move to Greenwich was £17 million. Many of the college's staff also teach at Junior Trinity,

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300-534: The London International Screen Dance Festival was introduced by the institution. Laban Creekside (Deptford) includes 13 purpose-built dance studios; eight with ballet barres, the 300-seat Bonnie Bird Theatre , a smaller studio theatre, and a dance library. Laban Laurie Grove (New Cross) also has a number of studios and performance laboratories. Designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (who won

325-573: The Trinity College Lodge No 1765 being founded in 1878 by seven early teaching members of the college who were freemasons, including the founder, the Reverend Henry George Bonavia Hunt . In the past, freemasonry was an important though private feature of the life of the College, among both members of staff and the undergraduate and postgraduate men. Trinity College Lodge is no longer associated with

350-475: The Trinity College London brand. Trinity College London offers graded musical qualifications for musical theory and for performance in a range of string instruments , singing , piano , electronic keyboards , brass , woodwind instruments and percussions , starting with the Initial Grade, then numbered from Grade 1 to Grade 8 with increasing difficulty. Candidates are rated under three categories –

375-496: The US. The Conservatoire has an acceptance rate of around 9.9% making Trinity Laban one of the most selective schools in the UK and Europe. Trinity College London was founded in 1877 as the external examinations board of Trinity College of Music. Today, the board's examinations are taken by students in over 60 countries, giving external students the opportunity to attain qualifications across

400-656: The building's cladding were damaged by Storm Eunice in February 2022, The Twentieth Century Society repeated 2020 calls for the Deptford building to be listed, so that any repairs respected the building's design quality. If it was added to the Heritage List for England it would become its first 21st century building. Current and former staff include: 51°28′48″N 0°00′36″W  /  51.4800°N 0.0100°W  / 51.4800; -0.0100 Trinity College London Trinity College London ( TCL )

425-656: The college retained a complicated layout reflecting its history as three separate buildings. The building is now occupied by the School of Economic Science . Trinity moved to its present home in Greenwich in 2001. The east wing of King Charles Court was constructed by John Webb as part of a rebuilding of Greenwich Palace ; it was subsequently absorbed into the Royal Naval Hospital complex, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren , which had later become part of

450-831: The college, since no member of the college belongs to it. However, by co-incidence, the College's patron, the Duke of Kent , has been Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England since 1968. Laban Dance Centre was founded in Manchester as the Art of Movement Studio by Rudolf Laban , an Austro-Hungarian dancer, choreographer and a dance/movement theoretician. In 1958, the school moved from Manchester to Addlestone in Surrey , and then in 1975 to New Cross in London, where it

475-511: The company. New Adventures Limited was incorporated in January 2001. New Adventures Charity (incorporated in 2008) is a registered charity (charity number: 1125342) that works "To advance the education of young people, dance practitioners and the general public particularly but not exclusively through the provision of workshops and classes with specific but not exclusive reference to the dance choreography of Matthew Bourne". New Adventures has been

500-449: The exam board introduced Rock & Pop graded examinations for bass , drums , guitar , keyboard and vocals. Trinity College London offers qualifications in speech and drama, individual acting skills, group performance, Shakespeare, choral speaking, communication skills, musical theatre , and performance arts. As is the case with music, diplomas in drama, performance and communication subjects are also offered at three levels, and TCL

525-491: The performance of musical pieces , technical work such as scales , and supporting tests such as sight reading and improvisation . Candidates are graded on a scale from 1 to 100, with 60 being the pass mark. Candidates have flexibility in the choices of pieces and tests prepared for each of these sections. In addition to graded examinations, TCL also offers foundation, intermediate and advanced certificates in music. TCL also offers diplomas in music at three levels: In 2012,

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550-600: The performing arts and in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). In 2004, Trinity College London's performing arts examinations division merged with the external examinations department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to form the Trinity Guildhall examinations board. The name Trinity Guildhall was dropped in 2012, and the board's performing arts examinations are now offered under

575-634: Was founded as the external examinations board of Trinity College of Music (which today is part of the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance ) in 1872, and began offering exams in music to external students in 1877. In common with its chief competitor, the ABRSM (est. 1889), Trinity College offers a range of graded examinations in music from grades 1–8, followed by Associate, Licentiate and Fellowship diplomas. Over time, Trinity College has expanded to offer exams in other areas of

600-585: Was renamed the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance . In 1997, it was renamed the Laban Centre London. In 2002, the centre moved to newly built premises in Deptford and was renamed Laban. Laban offers undergraduate, postgraduate, among other courses. The Faculty of Dance also provides classes for adults and young people on the local community, including the Centre for Advanced Training. In 2019,

625-582: Was the first music college to create such a department, and many conservatoires have now followed in Trinity's steps. Admission into the Faculty of Music is by competitive auditions, held annually in November or December and March or April. The Faculty of Dance asks for similar qualifications and entry is also by audition; auditions are held at Trinity Laban itself and also at selected venues across Europe and

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