Timeline Event » 1942 – Allied Ballet established
Jashf Crandall made his performing debut in the United States of America with Mikhail Mordkin’s Russian Ballet in 1926. Crandall had also danced with Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Adolph…
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Podcast » Gillian Lynne
The great choreographer and director Gillian Lynne tells Lynn Wallis how it was a giant, but ultimately rewarding step, to leave Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1951. We have a ten-minute…
Podcast » Julia Farron
Julia Farron was born in London in 1922. She was part of the vanguard of extraordinary talent that helped shape ballet in 20th Century Britain. In 1931 she was the…
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…
Timeline Event » 1946 – Premiere of Frederick Ashton’s Symphonic Variations for Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Frederick Ashton’s Symphonic Variations was something of a blueprint for British ballet after the narrative-heavy works of the war years. It remains a touchstone for the lyrical and musical ‘British’…
Timeline Event » 1944 – Premiere of Robert Helpmann’s Miracle in the Gorbals by Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Miracle in the Gorbals is a dramatic one-act ballet, choreographed in 1944 by Robert Helpmann to music by Arthur Bliss and designs by Edward Burra. It was first performed at…