The ballet writer Gerald Dowler is joined in a special episode of Voices of British Ballet by Monica Mason (former Royal Ballet student, principal dancer and director), Jane Pritchard (curator…
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Timeline Event » 1920 – Founding of The Association of Operatic Dancing of Great Britain (now the Royal Academy of Dance, (RAD))
On 31 December, 1920, Philip JS Richardson and Edouard Espinosa established The Association of Operatic Dancing of Great Britain, which would later become the Royal Academy of Dancing (RAD) in…
Timeline Event » 1910 – Launch of the Dancing Times
Dance writer and editor Philip JS Richardson relaunched The Dancing Times, the house magazine of the Cavendish Rooms, a ballroom dancing establishment in London, as a periodical to cover all…
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…
Podcast » Mary Clarke
It is thanks to her godson, Jerome Monahan, that we have this evocative and informative clip of Mary Clarke. Writer extraordinaire on all aspects of ballet, she hated the sound…