Queen Maxima spent the day with young dancers at the National Ballet Academy to celebrate a new chapter in their history.
The Dutch Queen was at the NBA’s new building in Amsterdam, the Nicolaas Tetterodestraat. The pre-professional school has been looking for a new home for nearly a decade and are now finally settling in.
Queen Maxima was able to see a unique student performance, staged on a staircase as she welcomed into the new space and received a bouquet of flowers from a young student.
She then officially opened the NBA’s new building.
Her Majesty was then welcomed to a final-year class to see what students are learning. She was then able to see some of the school’s dancers who will be taking part in The Nutcracker and the Mouse King in the coming holiday season.
Queen Maxima wore a grey cape and coordinating suede fedora over an olive green dress for the engagement.
The building has seven studios, including one that can be converted into a theatre. The academy is under the Academy for Theatre and Dance, a unit in the Amsterdam University of the Arts.
The NBA is the school under the Dutch National Ballet (known as the Het Nationale Ballet in the Netherlands) and currently has approximately 165 students who range in age from ten to seventeen.
