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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]
3 days ago · It was formed in 1956 under a royal charter of incorporation granted by Queen Elizabeth II to the Sadler’s Wells Ballet and its sister organizations, the Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet and the Sadler’s Wells School. The founders of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet were Lilian Baylis and Ninette de Valois.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
History. The Royal Ballet owes its existence to the vision of Dame Ninette de Valois, dancer, choreographer and entrepreneur, who assembled a small company and school, the Vic-Wells Ballet, and, in 1931, persuaded Lilian Baylis to provide it with a home at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in North London.
The Royal Ballet is one of the great ballet companies of the world. Under the leadership of Director Kevin O’Hare, grand balletic tradition and an illustrious heritage are united with innovation, daring and exceptional standards of artistry, creativity and stagecraft to produce supreme theatre.
Dancer, teacher, choreographer and artistic director Ninette de Valois (1898–2001) founded The Royal Ballet. The importance of her role in creating not only a world-class national company and school but a unique national style of dance and a British audience for ballet cannot be overstated.
On 17th November 2009 a memorial stone to four founders of the Royal Ballet was unveiled by Lady Sarah Chatto in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. The slate stone has gold lettering, designed by Stephen Raw to depict movement.
Quick Reference. Britain's national ballet company. It grew from Ninette de Valois's Academy of Choregraphic ( sic) Art, founded 1926, which performed occasional ballets for opera and drama productions at London's Old Vic Theatre.
