Podcast » Wendy Toye
The dancer and choreographer Adam Cooper introduces this wonderful interview with the dancer, choreographer, stage and film director Wendy Toye who begins by recalling chatting to Serge Diaghilev at...
companies » Camargo Society
The ballet writer Gerald Dowler is joined in a special episode of Voices of British Ballet by Monica Mason (former Royal Ballet student, principal dancer and director), Jane Pritchard (curator of...
Timeline Event » 1906 – Phyllis Bedells makes her London debut
Phyllis Bedells (1893-1985) was a British dancer and teacher, and founder of the Royal Academy of Dance. She rose to ballerina level using her own English name at a time when Russian names were...
Timeline Event » 1910 – Launch of the Dancing Times
Dance writer and editor Philip JS Richardson relaunched The Dancing Times, the house magazine of the Cavendish Rooms, a ballroom dancing establishment in London, as a periodical to cover all forms of...
Timeline Event » 1929 – Nicolas Legat sets up his school
Nicholas Legat was a Russian dancer, choreographer and teacher who was born in St Petersburg. In 1888 he joined the Maryinsky Ballet, where he was an outstanding dancer and partner, as well as a...
Timeline Event » 1930 – The First performance by The Camargo Society
The Camargo Society was a subscription ballet club formed in 1930 to support and nurture British ballet. Set up by Philip J.S. Richardson, the editor of the Dancing Times, and the critics Arnold...
Timeline Event » 1931 – Premiere of Frederick Ashton’s Façade by the Camargo Society
Façade was originally an ‘entertainment’ in which Edith Sitwell, from 1922, recited a selection of her poems accompanied to music composed by William Walton. This musical setting was expanded...
Timeline Event » 1931 – Premiere of Ninette de Valois’ Job by the Camargo Society
Job is a masque for dancing in eight scenes, choreographed and produced by Ninette de Valois. It was first presented by the Camargo Society at the Cambridge Theatre, London in July 1931 and then...