"the repertory of the Imperial Russian Ballet. To stage these ballets with her newly formed company, de Valois employed Nicholas Sergeyev, a former régisseur of the Imperial. He staged productions of Petipa's ""The Sleeping Beauty""; Petipa and Ivanov's ""Swan Lake"" and ""The Nutcracker""; Petipa and Cecchetti's production of ""Coppélia""; and Petipa's ""Giselle"". Created with the aid of choreographic notation written in St Petersburg at the turn of the 20th century, these works have been included in the repertoire of the Royal Ballet ever since. The company now uses Peter Wright's 1984 production of ""The Nutcracker"", which uses some of Sergeyev's"
"Ninette de Valois Dame Ninette de Valois (6 June 18988 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet, who began life in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, as Edris Stannus. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing the Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and one of the leading ballet companies in the world. She also established the Royal Ballet School and the touring company which became the Birmingham Royal Ballet. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history"
"the birth of Joan Denise Moriarty, the founder of Irish Theatre Ballet, Ireland's first professional ballet company. 2006 La Bayadere (Irish Tour) 2010 Swan Lake (For centenary of Aloys Fleischmann) 2011 Giselle (Prelude to the Joan Denise Moriarty centenary celebrations) 2011 Playboy of the Western World (Revival) 2012 The Sleeping Beauty (For the centenary celebrations of Joan Denise Moriarty) Foley, Alan.""Cork City Ballet: The Story So Far."" KWP. 2008. Cork City Ballet Cork City Ballet is an Irish ballet company founded by Alan Foley, a disciple of Joan Denise Moriarty, in 1992. It is one of two professional ballet companies"
"Tamara Karsavina Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (, 10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. She assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance, which is now the world's largest dance-teaching organisation. Tamara Karsavina was born in Saint"
"in 1987. Rambert is known for helping to create and keep the ballet community strong in Britain. """"The creation of Ballet in Britain is one of the grandest achievements in the artistic annals of our century. It is owed absolutely to the idealism which fired Rambert and Ninette de Valois"""", the founder of The Royal Ballet. She was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" in 1962 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate. She died on 12 June 1982 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 17 June. Her ashes are"
"Dame Barbara Cartland. In her later years, Brind took full-time care of her second husband, following health problems related to his two strokes, and her mother. Brind died of a heart attack on 2 December 2015. Her mother and her second husband, Ian McCorquodale survive her. Bryony Brind Bryony Jane Susan St John Brind (27 May 1960 – 2 December 2015) was a British ballerina and principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. Brind was born in Plymouth, the elder child of Major Roger Brind RM, and his wife, Jennifer Grey. She started at the Royal Ballet School in 1971 at"
"as the Vic-Wells Ballet. The Vic-Wells ballet company and school would be the predecessors of today's Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet School. Also in 1927, in May, W. B. Yeats, poet and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, suggested to de Valois while she was visiting Dublin the establishment of a ballet school in the city, and from around November, she took responsibility for the setting up and the programming of the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet in Dublin. This, the first of perhaps five Irish national ballet school projects during the 20th century, ran until June 1933,"
"working for ballet in Ireland. Her amateur Cork Ballet Company is still the longest-lasting ballet company the country has had; her two professional touring companies brought ballet to all parts of Ireland for in all 21 years. She received numerous awards for her work, among them an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 1979. During the last years of her life, she suffered ill-health, but continued her work with the Cork Ballet Company, bringing the shows to towns in the county. She died on 24 January 1992 in Dublin. Joan Denise Moriarty Joan Denise Moriarty (died 24"
"Joan Denise Moriarty Joan Denise Moriarty (died 24 January 1992) was an Irish ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher of ballet and traditional Irish dancer and musician. She was a key figure in the development of both amateur and professional ballet in Ireland. Little is known of Moriarty's early life. Her year of birth is estimated between 1910 and 1913 but no documentation has been found. The place of her birth is also unknown, and even the country is uncertain. She grew up as the daughter of Michael Augustus Moriarty (an alumnus of Stonyhurst College and contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)"
"1980, is President of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing and a Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. In September 1997 she was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award by Dame Antoinette Sibley. The Award is given by the Royal Academy of Dancing to individuals in recognition of great contribution to the world of ballet. She was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to dance. Beryl Grey Dame Beryl Elizabeth Grey, (née Groom; born 11 June 1927) is a retired English ballet dancer. Born in"
"Royal Ballet), Ballet Rambert (now the Rambert Dance Company), Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet now Birmingham Royal Ballet), and the newly formed Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet). International Ballet is probably unique amongst large ballet companies in that it paid its way without any private or state grant aid. Staging ballet has always been expensive, and Arts Council funding for the year 2013-2014 for those other three companies was Rambert £2M, English National Ballet £6M and the Royal Ballet well over £10M. International Ballet was formed by the 22-year-old dancer and choreographer Mona Inglesby. On the outbreak of war she"
"Gillian Lynne Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, (née Pyrke; 20 February 1926 – 1 July 2018) was an English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, ""Cats"" and ""The Phantom of the Opera"". At age 87, she was made a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 New Year Honours List. Gillian Barbara Pyrke was born in Bromley, Kent, and was a precocious dance talent from an early age, teaming with her childhood friend Beryl Grey while still at school,"
"times) had used them to reconstruct the original Petipa choreography for their 1999 production of ""Sleeping Beauty"", which the company brought to London in 2000. Derry died in 1986. Mona Inglesby died at Bexhill-on-Sea on 6 October 2006 aged 88. She is survived by her son. She received no honours during her lifetime, but in 2012 a plaque was put up inside the artists' entrance of the Royal Festival Hall commemorating her achievements and those of International Ballet, as the company which had inaugurated the Festival Hall's opening season of 1951. A BBC Radio 4 documentary ""Black-Out Ballet"", including interviews"
"Alicia Markova Dame Alicia Markova DBE (1 December 1910 – 2 December 2004) was an English ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the twentieth century. She was the first British dancer to become the principal dancer of a ballet company and, with Dame Margot Fonteyn, is one of only two English dancers to be recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta. Markova was a founder dancer of the Rambert Dance"
"National Ballet, took over in 2006. In April 2012, following the February sudden announcement of resignation by Eagling, principal dancer for The Royal Ballet Tamara Rojo was announced to become his successor at the end of the 2012 season, in August of that year. Artistic Directors: The Company's dancers are listed on the official website with photographs and linked biographies. English National Ballet English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin and based at Markova House in South Kensington, London, England. Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Scottish"
"1954 until 1977. May married twice. Her second marriage was to Charles Gordon, whom she met whilst visiting Cambridge on tour with the Royal Ballet. She is survived by one son from her first marriage and a daughter from her second, with whom she spent her later years living in Birmingham. Pamela May Pamela May OBE (30 May 1917 – 6 June 2005) was a Trinidad born British dancer and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted as one of the earliest members The Royal Ballet, she was regarded as a versatile dancer; dancing all the established 19th century classical repertoire,"
"Pamela May Pamela May OBE (30 May 1917 – 6 June 2005) was a Trinidad born British dancer and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted as one of the earliest members The Royal Ballet, she was regarded as a versatile dancer; dancing all the established 19th century classical repertoire, and creating roles in new ballets by Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton. After retiring from professional ballet, she became a teacher at the Royal Ballet School, and also served as vice-president of the Royal Academy of Dance. Pamela May was born Doris May, in the city of San Fernando, Trinidad,"
"Antoinette Sibley Dame Antoinette Sibley, (born 27 February 1939) is a British prima ballerina. She joined the Royal Ballet from the Royal Ballet School in 1956 and became a soloist in 1960. She was celebrated for her partnership with Anthony Dowell. After her retirement from dancing in 1989 she became President of the Royal Academy of Dance in 1991, and guest coach at the Royal Ballet (1991) and Governor, Royal Ballet Board (2000). Sibley was born in the London suburb of Bromley, the daughter of Edward G Sibley and his wife Winfred, ""née"" Smith. She was educated at the Arts"
"residential training college in Sussex. Rudolf died of cancer in 1975 and Joan then retired as principal. She published a history, ""Reading Dance: The Birth of Choreology"", in 1977 and was recognised with the Queen Elizabeth II award of the Royal Academy of Dance in 1986. She retired to Wimbledon where her hobbies included gardening, sewing and philosophy. She subsequently moved to Skelmersdale to be near her only son Anthony. She died in a nursing home there of pneumonia in 2014, aged 94. Joan Benesh Joan Benesh (née Rothwell; 24 March 1920 – 27 September 2014) was a British ballet"
"with the Royal Shakespeare Company and as Company Manager of Birmingham Royal Ballet. This is a great honour for me. Under Monica Mason's inspired leadership The Royal Ballet has had a great ten years. I am equally ambitious for the Company and dance in general. I plan to bring together the most talented artists of the 21st century to collaborate on the same stage – world class dancers, choreographers, designers, and musicians. I will aim to use all the traditional and new platforms now available to engage our audiences in our classic repertoire, and The Royal Ballet's unique heritage. I"
"grande vitesse"". Hamilton has created roles for the Royal Ballet's resident choreographer Wayne McGregor in productions including ""Infra"", ""Carbon Life"", ""Limen"" and ""Acis and Galatea"". Melissa Hamilton Melissa Hamilton (born 2 August 1989) is a Northern Irish ballerina and a First Soloist with the Royal Ballet, London. Hamilton was born in Belfast and spent most of her child life in Dromore, County Down. Beginning dance training at the Jennifer Bullick School of Ballet aged four, she went on to join the Elmhurst School of Dance in Birmingham at age 16 on being awarded a scholarship. While at Elmhurst, her talent"
"New London Theatre was renamed the Gillian Lynne Theatre, making it the first theatre in the West End of London to be named after a non-royal woman. Gillian Lynne Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, (née Pyrke; 20 February 1926 – 1 July 2018) was an English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, ""Cats"" and ""The Phantom of the Opera"". At age 87, she was made a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 New Year Honours List. Gillian Barbara"
"Margot Lander Margot Ella Florentz Lander (23 August 1910 – 18 July 1961), a prima ballerina with the Royal Danish Ballet, was the most important Danish ballerina of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Oslo to Ella Florentz (1891-?), an opera singer, and Marx Gerharh (1871–1938), a journalist, Lander began studying at the Royal Danish Ballet School in 1917 and joined the Royal Danish Ballet in 1928. Two years later she married Harald Lander (1905–1971), a dancer and choreographer who became the ballet-master at the Royal Danish Ballet. Margot Lander became principal dancer in 1933 and Denmark’s"
"English National Ballet English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin and based at Markova House in South Kensington, London, England. Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Scottish Ballet, it is one of the four major ballet companies in Great Britain. English National Ballet is one of the foremost touring companies in Europe, performing in theatres throughout the UK as well as conducting international tours and performing at special events. The Company employs approximately 67 dancers and a symphony orchestra, (English National Ballet Philharmonic) and there is also"
"of 78. Belinda Wright (dancer) Belinda Wright (18 January 1929 – 1 April 2007) was an English ballerina noted for romantic and classical roles. She was born Brenda Wright in Southport, Lancashire (later Merseyside). She was the daughter of a coal merchant, and as a sickly child was advised to take dance classes for her health. She studied under Dorothea Halliwell, Olga Preobrajenska in Paris and Kathleen Crofton in London, and won awards for young dancers including the Anna Pavlova Cup and the Dancing Times Cup. Wright began working with Ballet Rambert in 1946. After further studies, she joined the"
"Royal Ballet in recent years, due to controversy caused by his management of the company. Following his resignation, Stretton returned to Australia where he worked as a teacher and consultant until his death from cancer in 2005. A number of controversial issues and allegations as well as resistance to organisational change lead to Stretton's departure from the Royal Ballet: Former Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal dancer and Royal Ballet Administrative Director Kevin O'Hare succeeded Monica Mason as Director of The Royal Ballet in August 2012. Administrative Director of the company since 2009, O'Hare retired from dancing in 2000 and subsequently worked"
"same. But I have added a chapter in an attempt to bring some unity into the features of Diaghileff's personality, some of which features are scattered about the book."" Tamara Karsavina Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (, 10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. She assisted in the establishment"
"sensationally, Rudolf Nureyev. She also invited choreographers like Sir Kenneth MacMillan and George Balanchine to work with her company. She formally retired from the Royal Ballet directorship in 1963, but her presence continued to loom large in the company, and the same was true with the School, from which she formally retired in 1970. de Valois acted as patron or supporter to a number of other projects, including the Cork Ballet Company and Irish National Ballet Company in Ireland. As with ballet in the British Isles, de Valois exerted a great deal of influence on the development of ballet in"
"within the Cloister Walk in section B. Marie Rambert Dame Marie Rambert, Mrs Dukes DBE (20 February 188812 June 1982) was a Polish-born dancer and pedagogue who exerted great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher. Born to a liberal Jewish family in Warsaw, Congress Poland, she was originally named Cyvia (Cesia) Rambam. Her father and two of his brothers later changed their last names to make them seem only children in order to escape military service in the Imperial Russian Army; and so, while one brother retained the name Rambam, her father changed his to Ramberg,"
"to the formation of the UK's first ballet company, which survives today as the country's oldest established dance company, although it is now known as Rambert Dance Company and specialises in contemporary dance. The school also remains and is known as the ""Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance"". Dame Ninette de Valois was a colleague of Cecchetti during her professional career with the Ballets Russes. She established The Royal Ballet in London, with many of the companies early dancers being pupils of Cecchetti. The Cecchetti method was also favoured by de Valois when she formed the Royal Ballet School."
"Anine Frølich Anine Marie Magdalene Frølich, (13 March 1762 – 6 November 1784) was a Danish ballerina, one of the first professional native ballet dancers in Denmark and the first native star within the Royal Danish Ballet. Anine Frølich was perhaps the principal figure in the emergence of classical ballet as a distinct art-form in Denmark. Frølich was born in Copenhagen, and was accepted as a student in the ballet school of the Court-Theater ""Hofteatret"" in 1771. The Court-Theater had been founded in 1767 at the Christiansborg Palace by Pierre Laurent of the French theater troupe employed there: it was"
"Rambert Dance Company Rambert, (known as Rambert Dance Company before 2014) is a leading British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingdom, and today, as a contemporary dance company, continues to be one of the world's most renowned dance companies. It has previously been known as the Ballet Club, and the Ballet Rambert. Dame Marie Rambert (1888–1982), founder of Rambert Dance Company, was born in Warsaw, Poland where she was inspired to become a dancer after"
"stage, as a teacher of note and an innovative ballet school director, notably at both the Australian Ballet School and more recently the Royal Ballet School. Her legacy lives on in the thousands of dancers whose careers she touched and nurtured during these prestigious positions."" Gailene Stock Gailene Stock CBE AM (28 January 194629 April 2014) was an Australian-born ballerina, teacher and Director of the Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden. Gailene Patricia Stock was born in Ballarat, Victoria. She was the second of three daughters to Roy and Sylvia. She began dancing from the age of three. However, she"