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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]
In 2006, she joined K-ballet [3] while she continued dancing with The Royal Ballet, before winning the Best Female Dancer in National Dance Awards. In 2007, she was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to dance. [4] In 2010 she retired from the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden. [5]
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]
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.
In 2012, she performed at the Paralympics closing ceremony, alongside Thiago Soares, also a Brazilian principal at the Royal Ballet, as well as several visually-impaired dancers from Brazil. [4] In 2015, the Royal Ballet announced Marquez would leave the company after a performance of Romeo and Juliet in December that year. [5] In the 2016/17 ...