Adeline Genée (1878-1970) was a Danish ballerina and founder-president of the Royal Academy of Dance. At the age of three she started taking dancing lessons from her uncle Alexander Genée…
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Podcast » Richard Alston
The distinguished choreographer and director Richard Alston explains how, as a teenager, he was entranced by watching ballet. After studying fine art, he began working on the Martha Graham technique…
Etudes is a ballet of mounting excitement as choreographer Harald Lander takes the audience and the dancers through the progress of classical dance technique culminating in a spectacular finale of…
Timeline Event » 1979 – London Festival Ballet dances Peter Schaufuss’ production of La Sylphide for the first time
The ballet that best epitomises Romantic ballet, La Sylphide was first performed in Paris in 1831. Created by the choreographer and ballet master Filippo Taglioni as a vehicle for his…