Celebrating Ninette de Valois: the Academy of Choregraphic Art

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Ninette de Valois’ Academy for Choregraphic Art in March 1926, and to mark 25 years since de Valois’ death, Patricia Linton talks to Dr Anna Meadmore, archivist at The Royal Ballet School. In the first of a series of special programmes across 2026, they discuss the early years of what would become the Vic-Wells, Sadler’s Wells Ballet School and then The Royal Ballet School.