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Pages in category "Dancers of The Royal Ballet" The following 83 pages are in this category, out of 83 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.The largest of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in 1931 by Dame Ninette de Valois. [1]
Pages in category "Principal dancers of The Royal Ballet" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
He joined the company of the Royal Ballet after graduating in 2008, Johan Kobborg had included him on a short tour of Denmark during his first season with the Royal Ballet. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] He was then promoted to First Artist in 2011, Soloist in 2012 and First Soloist in 2015.
Brian Shaw (28 June 1928 – 2 April 1992) was a British ballet dancer and teacher. As a leading dancer with the Royal Ballet during the 1950s and 1960s, he was widely regarded as "one of the finest classical male dancers of his generation". [1]
Calvin Richardson is an Australian ballet dancer and a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet. [1] Richardson grew up in Traralgon, Australia [1] He trained at The Royal Ballet School and joined the Company in 2014. [1] He was promoted to first artist in 2017, soloist in 2018, first soloist in 2021, and principal in 2024. [1]
In 1999, he co-founded K-ballet in Japan. [5] In 2002, he joined the English National Ballet as a First Soloist before returning to the Royal Ballet in 2004. He was made Principal Character Artist the following year. [6] In 2007, he was appointed Assistant Ballet Master, and was named Ballet Master in the 2009/10 season. [2]
In 1954, Somes married the ballet dancer Deirdre Annette Dixon (1934–1959), a junior soloist for the Royal Ballet. Dixon died in a London hospital on May 28, 1959, aged 25, from a cerebral abscess and meningitis, [4] although her obituary in The Stage states that her death was from the effects of a car accident two years previously. [5]