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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]
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]
William Bracewell (born 13 May 1991 [1]) is a Welsh ballet dancer. He joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2010, and was named soloist in 2014. In 2017, he joined the Royal Ballet in London, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2022. He is the first Welsh person to hold the position.
Edward Watson was born in Bromley, Kent and was brought up in Dartford with his twin sister, Liz. [2] He first attended dance classes at the age of 3, and was later accepted as a student at the Royal Ballet School, eventually joining the full-time school at White Lodge, Richmond Park. [2]
He later joined Royal Ballet School as a Junior Associate at age eight and then effectively at age 11. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the summer of 1999 he first performed on stage with the Royal Ballet, at the reopening of the Royal Opera House after refurbishment, at the age of nine, he was one of the children who took part in the ballet The Sleeping Beauty ...
Pamela May OBE (30 May 1917 – 6 June 2005) was a Trinidad-born British dancer and teacher of classical ballet. [1] Most noted as one of the earliest members of The Royal Ballet, she was regarded as a versatile dancer; dancing all the established 19th-century classical repertoire, and creating roles in new ballets by Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton.