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Timeline Event » 1963 – Balletmakers Limited created

Established as a facilitator for the creation of new dance pieces outside of established companies, Balletmakers Limited grew out of Teresa Early’s desire to choreograph despite her understanding...

Timeline Event » 1974 – Premiere of Robert North’s Troy Game by London Contemporary Dance Theatre

An all-male work choreographed in 1974 by Robert North for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Troy Game playfully ridicules muscle-bound machismo whilst also offering its cast plenty of bravura...

Timeline Event » 1981 – Phoenix Dance Company established

Phoenix Dance Company was established in Leeds in 1981 by David Hamilton, its founding director, Donald Edwards and Vilmore James. These young Black men were all inspired by the teaching they had...

Timeline Event » 1981 – Robert North becomes director of Rambert Dance

Best known as a dancer and choreographer with London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Robert North was appointed director of Ballet Rambert in 1981.

Timeline Event » 1988 – Siobhan Davies Dance founded

Born Susan Davies in London in 1950, Siobhan Davies was studying art when she joined what would become London Contemporary Dance Theatre in 1967. Davies created her first piece for the company in...

Timeline Event » 1991 – Candoco Dance Company

Celeste Dandeker-Arnold was a dancer with London Contemporary Dance Theatre who became a quadriplegic following an accident on stage that broke her neck. She subsequently studied costume design at...

Timeline Event » 1994 – Richard Alston Dance Company opened

Choreographer Richard Alston, one of the first cohort of students of London Contemporary Dance School, had been director of Ballet Rambert from 1986 to 1992. In 1994 he opened his own company,...

Grace Note » 1980s and on: Bill Cooper, a photographer on photography

Photography has continually transformed itself, like all the other arts. How has this affected the photography of ballet? When I joined Scottish Ballet in 1977 Peter Darrell organised a Choreographic...