ballets » La Bayadère

Anna Pavlova  was born in St Petersburg in 1881, and entered the Imperial Ballet School in 1891.  In 1897 she first danced on the Maryinsky stage, and graduated in 1899.  She was accorded...

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This mysteriously beautiful ballet, originally in four Acts, was created in 1877 by Marius Petipa, ballet master of the Imperial Ballet in St Petersburg. This typically Romantic tale has undergone...

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Appointed as the company’s new artistic director, Peter Schaufuss widened London Festival Ballet’s repertoire, inviting Frederick Ashton to mount his Romeo and Juliet on the company in 1985, and...

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In his own training Petipa combined elements of both French and Italian traditions. From this heritage he did much not only to create the Russian school from which his great ballets flowed, but also...

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