Timeline Event » 1947 – The Metropolitan Ballet launched
Impresario Leon Hepner (born 1904) had launched two ballet companies during the World War Two: Fortune Ballet and London Ballet (a separate company from Antony Tudor’s ensemble of the same…
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Timeline Event » 1944 – Anglo-Russian Ballet established
Daughter of the editor of The Stage, Letitia Browne opened the Wimbledon Ballet Club in 1935. Browne worked with ENSA (the Entertainments National Service Association) during World War Two, taking…
Podcast » Romayne Grigorova
Romayne Grigorova had a long, distinguished career in ballet and the theatre. Here, in conversation with Patricia Linton, founder and director of Voices of British Ballet, she focuses on her…