As seen in: Greenwich Magazine: October 2017
Aidan Buss of Old Greenwich has been in love with ballet for eleven of his fifteen years. He describes dancing simply: “I just like performing and showing other people this part of me that I can’t show otherwise,” he says. “With classical ballet you have this classical music performed by these fantastic composers. I love what ballet can make me do. It’s just a fantastic way of movement and art, and Aidan Buss of Old Greenwich has been in love with ballet for eleven of his fifteen years. He describes dancing simply: “I just like performing and showing other people this part of me that I can’t show otherwise,” he says. “With classical ballet you have this classical music performed by these fantastic composers. I love what ballet can make me do. It’s just a fantastic way of movement and art, and I have so much passion for it.”
Last year, Aidan was the only American to be accepted to the Lower School (ages eleven to sixteen) of London’s prestigious Royal Ballet School (RBS). He found himself on stage at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden performing with the full contingent of 200-plus students in the traditional ballet school finale, Grand Défilé. There were performances around London too, all staged to show off the extraordinary hard work and promise of these students. At Opera Holland Park in Kensington, on a stage with the backdrop of a half-ruined castle, Aidan was challenged with tap dancing to lively Irish music. He was seen again Scottish dancing in a kilt in the famed ballet La Sylphide, partnering with a ballerina classmate. And this is only the beginning of his journey.
