In 2026 Voices of British Ballet is celebrating the life of Ninette de Valois, to mark the centenary of the Royal Ballet School, with a series of interviews and special episodes that illuminate her...
decade » 1890s
Podcast » Reflections: Anna Pavlova
As part of Voices of British Ballet’s Reflections series Jane Pritchard, curator of Dance at the Victoria and Albert Museum, talks to Patricia Linton, founder and director of Voices of British...
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 and his...
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...
Grace Note » Fin de Siecle: Sargent and Madame X
Madame X scandalised late 19th Century Parisienne society by being painted with a slipped shoulder strap. Yet only a few years later Isadora Duncan danced in diaphanous dresses to great acclaim. More...