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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.
On 21 March 1959 Dame Ninette de Valois, artistic director of the Royal Ballet, allowed Sibley to undertake her first major role, at a matinée at the Royal Opera House. Sibley was cast as Swanhilda in Coppelia. During 1959 Sibley had the chance to be tutored by one of the greatest ballerinas of the twentieth century, Tamara Karsavina. [3]
The Royal Ballet is one of the few ballet companies in the world to have employed four dancers considered to be prima ballerina assoluta, including three who studied at the Royal Ballet School. The first was Alicia Markova who, having been mentored by Ninette de Valois as a member of Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , was invited to become one ...
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 ...
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]
Sir Robert Murray Helpmann (né Helpman, 9 April 1909 – 28 September 1986) was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, director, and choreographer.After early work in Australia he moved to Britain in 1932, where he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (now The Royal Ballet) under its creator, Ninette de Valois.