1941 – The Vic-Wells Ballet renamed Sadler’s Wells Ballet

By 1935, the Vic-Wells Ballet had stopped dancing regularly at the Old Vic for a variety of reasons, not least the expense and confusion of moving between the Old Vic and Sadler’s Wells, where the company and school had been based since 1931.Thus in the latter half of the 1930s the company was increasingly, but unofficially, referred to as Sadler’s Wells Ballet.. The school was to change its name first, after the Governor’s decided it should be called the Sadler’s Wells Ballet School in 1939. However, and the first sighting of its new name came in a Dancing Times advertisement for the Sadler’s Wells School of Ballet in January 1940. The company did not officially change its name from the Vic-Wells Ballet to the Sadler’s Wells Ballet until February 1941.