2026 Syllabus Insights - Advanced 1 & 2 Female (Online)

Syllabus Insights – Advanced 1 & 2 Female

This course looks at some of the principles of technique, performance and musicality which underpin the training of RAD syllabi. Participants will observe students in Advanced 1 and 2 Female classes, followed by discussions of how effective teaching methods inform best practice and on-going development and progression. Participants will also observe strategies which support class management, effective feedback and motivating student engagement. Through observing learning and detaching in action, participants will gain insight into how examination criteria can be applied during training.

Aims

• To improve participants’ knowledge of how to employ a range of teaching strategies to help engage and motivate students and develop technique, musicality and performance.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion, participants will:

• have an increased understanding of the RAD examination criteria,
• be able to incorporate effective and creative teaching methods in your dance teaching, and
• have a greater understanding of how students can be taught in an imaginative, incentivising and inclusive manner.

Date and Time

TBC March 2026 9.30am-12.00pm & 12.30pm-3.00pm AEDT (Sydney)

Registration closes

TBC March 2026 3.00pm TBC AEDT (Sydney)

Format        

Interactive webinar via Zoom

Includes observation of student coaching, discussion and Q&A.

This session is livestream only and will not be recorded.

Details of how to join the session will be sent to registered participants approximately 7 days prior.

Required preparation

Participants should be familiar with the content and methodology of Advanced 1 & 2 Female.

Required resources

• Computer/laptop/tablet with internet connection, camera and microphone
• Speakers or headphones
• A safe space for the duration of the session

Tutor

Hilary Kaplan

Hilary Kaplan was born in South Africa. A child prodigy in various styles of dancing, she trained with the late Reina Berman (ballet) and with Mercedes Molina (Spanish dancing), Luisa Cortes and Enrique Segovia (Spanish dancing). For several years, she won most of the first prizes in Ballet, Spanish, Character and Classical Greek in all the major dance competitions in Johannesburg. 

Having done outstandingly well in all her Royal Academy of Dance examinations including achieving the Solo Seal, she was awarded the RAD Bursary, which enabled her to complete her training at the Royal Ballet School in London. She then returned to South Africa where she danced with PACT and CAPAB. 

She then married and settled down to open her own highly successful ballet school. While teaching she completed a BA at the University of Witwatersrand majoring in languages. 

Hilary was subsequently appointed a Dual Examiner and Tutor for the Royal Academy of Dance and a Dual Examiner for the Spanish Dance Society. She is a sought-after examiner and teacher travelling all over the world, appearing regularly on the faculties of international summer schools and seminars. In 1996 she moved to Australia with her husband and five daughters. While examining in Sydney that year, she met Archibald McKenzie, with whom she conducted several courses for the RAD. She went on, together with Archibald, to found Alegria in 1998. Since then she has qualified with a Licentiate Diploma in the Cecchetti method and has been recently awarded the Prestigious FRAD by the Royal Academy of Dance.

CPD hours              

Participants must complete a questionnaire following the course to receive 2.5 time valued CPD hours. The tutor will review the questionnaires and successful participants will be sent a certificate of completion.

Participants who do not complete a questionnaire, or the tutor deems their questionnaire as unsuccessful, may include them in their independent CPD hours. No certificate will be provided.

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