Banking giant to sponsor Royal Ballet

Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced HSBC UK as its principal sponsor.

HSBC UK will offer particular support to the Dance Track initiative which makes such a positive impact.

In 2022, Dance Track celebrates its 25th anniversary. The programme has auditioned around 36,000 pupils and offered free ballet workshops, tuition and associated activities to 3,244 children aged from six-to-eight during the last 25 years.

Its participants are talented children from primary schools across Birmingham who otherwise would be unlikely to engage with the Arts.

Birmingham Royal Ballet will celebrate 25 years of Dance Track, culminating in a celebratory performance in central Birmingham in 2022.

The performance will bring together past and current students, teachers, staff, parents and schools, to celebrate the achievements of the programme and all who have been involved in it.

Carlos Acosta, artistic director at Birmingham Royal Ballet, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be working closely with HSBC UK as our principal sponsor across 2021/22 and extremely grateful for its support.

“We believe that ballet can change lives and is for everyone, everywhere. We are thankful to HSBC UK for supporting all our work and in particular for their alignment to the 25th anniversary of Dance Track. ”