• British ballet is most recognised for two leading methods, those of the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Academy of Dance. The identifying characteristic...
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    classifications such as Russian ballet, French ballet, British ballet and Italian ballet. For example, Russian ballet features high extensions and dynamic...
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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...
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    Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into...
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    Mayerling is a ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan to the music of Franz Liszt, arranged by John Lanchbery, scenario by Gillian Freeman and designed...
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    Spandau Ballet (/ˈspændaʊ ˈbæleɪ/ SPAN-dow BAL-ay) were an English pop band formed in Islington, London, in 1979. Inspired by the capital's post-punk underground...
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    Marianela Núñez (category 21st-century British ballet dancers)
    Núñez (born 23 March 1982) is an Argentine-British ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet, London. Marianela Núñez was born in Buenos...
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    Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes...
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    pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by...
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  • works for Ballet Black, Miami City Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, the BalletBoyz, English National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre...
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    Francesca Hayward (category 21st-century British ballet dancers)
    (born 4 July 1992) is a Kenyan-born British ballet dancer and actress. She is a principal dancer in the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in London. In 2019...
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    Alicia Markova (category 20th-century British ballet dancers)
    was a British ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes...
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    choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Yeovil, Somerset, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age...
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    Linda Foster (actress) (category 20th-century British ballet dancers)
    engineer, and Hilda, who ran a dance studio. At the age of six, she learned ballet and modern dance. Foster and her family later moved to Toronto, Ontario...
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    Ballet is a formalized dance form with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries. Ballet spread from Italy to France with...
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  • The Red Shoes (1948 film) (category Ballet in the United Kingdom)
    the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), who tests her dedication to the ballet by making her choose...
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    Helen George (category 21st-century British ballet dancers)
    between 1993 and 1998, and studied ballet as a child, eventually becoming a junior associate at Birmingham Royal Ballet, and was active in sports, competing...
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    Darcey Bussell (category 20th-century British ballet dancers)
    City Ballet, La Scala Theatre Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and the Australian Ballet. She retired from ballet in 2007. Bussell was born in...
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    Wayne Sleep (category British male ballet dancers)
    School. He began ballet lessons in Hartlepool in 1955 with Muriel Carr, before gaining a Leverhulme Scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in 1961 and...
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    Opéra-ballet Ballet d'action 19th century Classical ballet Azerbaijani British French Italian Russian Pre-romantic ballet Romantic ballet 20th century...
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  • Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest (category British ballet choreographers)
    performed as Peter Michael with the Markova-Dolin Ballet, Ballet Divertissement, Ballet Theatre, Ballet Joos, and the Repertory Dance Theatre from 1935...
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  • Frederick Ashton (category British ballet choreographers)
    Mallandaine Ashton OM CH CBE (17 September 1904 – 18 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He also worked as a director and choreographer...
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    Oona Chaplin (category 21st-century British ballet dancers)
    travelled often because of her mother's film career. She started dancing ballet, salsa and flamenco at an early age. When Chaplin was 15, she began studying...
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    Carlos Acosta (category British male ballet dancers)
    (born 2 June 1973) is a Cuban-British ballet director and retired dancer who is director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. He danced with many companies...
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    Melissa Hamilton (category 21st-century British ballet dancers)
    Hamilton (born 2 August 1989) is a Northern Irish ballet dancer and a First Soloist with the Royal Ballet, London. Hamilton was born in Belfast and spent...
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    Moira Shearer (category Dancers of The Royal Ballet)
    Academy. When she returned to Britain with her parents in 1936, her mother took her to the London studio of the Russian ballet master Nicholas Legat. The...
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    A ballet master (also balletmaster, ballet mistress, premier maître de ballet or premier maître de ballet en chef) is an employee of a ballet company...
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    full-length narrative ballet scores, commissioned by The Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada and The Australian Ballet, Alice's Adventures in...
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  • Joseph Sissens (category 21st-century British ballet dancers)
    Joseph Sissens (born 1997/1998) is a British ballet dancer and a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet. Sissens is of Anglo-Caribbean descent and was...
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  • needed] – 29 October 1992) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer who was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977...
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