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Arts Educational Schools
Arts Educational Schools, or ArtsEd, is a drama school, and an independent performing arts secondary school in Chiswick, West London, England.
ArtsEd provides specialist vocational training at secondary, further and higher education level in musical theatre and acting for film and television. The school also offers part-time and holiday courses in the performing arts.
ArtsEd is one of twenty-one specialist performing arts schools approved to offer government-funded Dance and Drama Awards, a scheme established to subsidise the cost of professional dance and drama training for the most talented students at leading institutions. It is a member of the Federation of Drama Schools.
ArtsEd was founded in 1939. It was formed as a result of a merger between the Cone School of Dancing founded in 1919 by Grace Cone, and the Ripman School founded in 1922 by Olive Ripman. Both Cone and Ripman offered curricula combining a general academic education with training in the arts, in preparation for professional careers connected with the theatre. The two schools were amalgamated in 1939 to form the Cone-Ripman School, the predecessor of today's ArtsEd.
The school was first based at Stratford Place, off Oxford Street in London. Teaching was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but in 1941, the school reopened at Stratford Place, while a second school operated at Tring Park. In 1945, the Cone-Ripman School obtained the lease to Tring Park; later, it purchased the building. In 1947, both schools were renamed the Arts Educational Schools. The London school was for a while, until 1962, based at Hyde Park Corner (144 Piccadilly). The school then moved repeatedly to other buildings in Kensington. In 1969, the school acquired a lease for 21 years on Golden Lane House in the Barbican area of London. In 1986 the school purchased the former buildings of Chiswick Polytechnic.
In the 2000s, the two schools became independent of each other, and the Tring school was renamed Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
For many years, the president of the school was prima ballerina assoluta Dame Alicia Markova; Dame Beryl Grey became Director in the 1960s. Dame Alicia was succeeded in 2007 by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Iain Reid was dean of the schools from 1999 until his retirement in December 2006. He was succeeded by John Baraldi, former chief executive of Riverside Studios, and former director of the East 15 Acting School; Baraldi left the school in 2009, and was succeeded by Jane Harrison. In 2017, Chris Hocking assumed the role of principal; he resigned in 2021 and was succeeded by Julie Spencer as interim principal.
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Arts Educational Schools
Arts Educational Schools, or ArtsEd, is a drama school, and an independent performing arts secondary school in Chiswick, West London, England.
ArtsEd provides specialist vocational training at secondary, further and higher education level in musical theatre and acting for film and television. The school also offers part-time and holiday courses in the performing arts.
ArtsEd is one of twenty-one specialist performing arts schools approved to offer government-funded Dance and Drama Awards, a scheme established to subsidise the cost of professional dance and drama training for the most talented students at leading institutions. It is a member of the Federation of Drama Schools.
ArtsEd was founded in 1939. It was formed as a result of a merger between the Cone School of Dancing founded in 1919 by Grace Cone, and the Ripman School founded in 1922 by Olive Ripman. Both Cone and Ripman offered curricula combining a general academic education with training in the arts, in preparation for professional careers connected with the theatre. The two schools were amalgamated in 1939 to form the Cone-Ripman School, the predecessor of today's ArtsEd.
The school was first based at Stratford Place, off Oxford Street in London. Teaching was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but in 1941, the school reopened at Stratford Place, while a second school operated at Tring Park. In 1945, the Cone-Ripman School obtained the lease to Tring Park; later, it purchased the building. In 1947, both schools were renamed the Arts Educational Schools. The London school was for a while, until 1962, based at Hyde Park Corner (144 Piccadilly). The school then moved repeatedly to other buildings in Kensington. In 1969, the school acquired a lease for 21 years on Golden Lane House in the Barbican area of London. In 1986 the school purchased the former buildings of Chiswick Polytechnic.
In the 2000s, the two schools became independent of each other, and the Tring school was renamed Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
For many years, the president of the school was prima ballerina assoluta Dame Alicia Markova; Dame Beryl Grey became Director in the 1960s. Dame Alicia was succeeded in 2007 by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Iain Reid was dean of the schools from 1999 until his retirement in December 2006. He was succeeded by John Baraldi, former chief executive of Riverside Studios, and former director of the East 15 Acting School; Baraldi left the school in 2009, and was succeeded by Jane Harrison. In 2017, Chris Hocking assumed the role of principal; he resigned in 2021 and was succeeded by Julie Spencer as interim principal.