- Darcey Bussell
Darcey Bussell CBE (born London; 27 April 1969) is a retired English ballerina.
- Anthony Dowell
Sir Anthony James Dowell, CBE (born 16 February 1943 in London, England) is a famous ballet dancer and was Artistic Director of England's Royal Ballet from 1986 to 2001, when he officially retired. He studied at the Hampshire School and The Royal Ballet’s Lower and Upper Schools. In 1961 he joined The Royal Ballet and only two years later was chosen by choreographer Frederick Ashton to create the role of Oberon in "The Dream".
- Ninette de Valois
Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE (June 6, 1898 - March 8, 2001) was the founder of London's renowned Royal Ballet. Born Edris Stannus in Baltiboys, County Wicklow, Ireland, Stannus began dancing in 1908 at age ten, and became noticed throughout England because of her graceful movements. She legally changed her name to Ninette de Valois in 1921. She danced with Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, although she was never a major Ballet Russes star.
- Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Wheeldon (born March 22, 1973) is among the most sought-after and critically acclaimed contemporary ballet choreographers in the world. Born in Somerset, England, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18. In 1991, Wheeldon joined the Royal Ballet, London. In 1993, at the age of 19, Wheeldon moved to New York City to join the prestigious New York City Ballet.
- John Neumeier
John Neumeier (February 24, 1942 -) is a well-known American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director. He has been the director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet since 1973. 5 years later he founded the Hamburg Ballet School, which also includes a boarding school. In 1996 Neumeier has been made ballet director of the Hamburg Staatsoper. Neumeier was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., where he received his first ballet training.
- Michael Clark
Michael Clark (born June, 1962) is a British dancer and choreographer. He was born in Aberdeen and started attending Scottish dancing lessons at the age of four along with one of his sisters. He later went to ballet classes in Aberdeen. At the age of 13 he was given a place at the Royal Ballet School in London, but after he graduated at the age of 17 he turned down a place with the Company. He went to Ballet Rambert for two years and developed his interest in modern dance.
- Monica Mason
Monica Mason O.B.E. is a ballet dancer and has been the Director of the British national ballet company, the Royal Ballet, since 2002.
- Tamara Rojo
Tamara Rojo (born in 1974) is a Spanish prima ballerina. Tamara was born in Montreal, Canada to Spanish parents who moved back to Spain when she was four months old. She started dancing at 10 years of age in Victor Ullate Dance Centre in Madrid (1983-1991), and completed her training under David Howard and Renatto Paroni. Tamara continued to work with the Ullate Company from 1991 to 1996. At 20 years of age she was offered a contract with the Scottish Ballet, …
- Alessandra Ferri
Alessandra Ferri (born in 1963) is an Italian ballerina, dancing as a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in New York, Prima Ballerina with the La Scala Ballet in Milan, and as an international guest artist. She retired on June 23, 2007 after a 22 year career with ABT, at age 44, with a performance of Kenneth MacMillan's "Romeo and Juliet" at the Met.
- Wayne Sleep
Wayne Sleep OBE (born July 17, 1948), Plymouth, Devon, England; is an English dancer, director and choreographer. He was a Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet and has appeared as a Guest Artist with several other ballet companies. He started studying with Muriel Carr, before gaining a Leverhulme Scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in 1961 and joining the Royal Ballet in 1966.
- Deborah Bull
Deborah Bull CBE (born March 22, 1963) is an English dancer, writer, and broadcaster. Born in Derby, Bull grew up in Kent and Lincolnshire and was educated at the Royal Ballet School. A ballerina winning the Prix de Lausanne 1980 and a member of the Royal Ballet from 1981 to 2001, becoming Principal Dancer in 1992. Early in 2002, Bull was engaged as the Creative Director developing the ROH2 programme at the Royal Opera House.
- Christopher Gable
Christopher Gable (born March 13, 1940 in London - died October 25, 1998 in Yorkshire) was an English dancer and actor. Gable studied at the Royal Ballet School, becoming a soloist in 1959 with the Royal Ballet. He continued as a principal with Covent Garden Ballet, but was troubled by arthritis and left in 1967 to pursue a career in acting. Christopher Gable's ballet roles included that of Mercury in Jacques Offenbach's comic operetta, "Orpheus in the Underworld", …
- Will Kemp
William Kemp (born 29 June 1977) is a British actor and dancer. Kemp was born in Hertfordshire, England to Barry Kemp, a graphic designer, and Rosi, a former model. He has been dancing since he was nine, with the encouragement of his mother. Trained at the Royal Ballet School, at age 17 he was accepted at dance company, Adventures in Motion Pictures (AMP).
- Tom Sapsford
Tom Sapsford, is a British ballet dancer and choreographer, whose work often concentrates on the interplay of contemporary dance and new media technology. He trained at the Royal Ballet School, winning prizes from Kenneth Macmillan. In 1993, he joined The Royal Ballet, and two years later was awarded one of the first ever Jerwood Foundation Young Choroegraphers’ Awards. His work has been presented by The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera House, among others.
- Lucette Aldous
Lucette Aldous (born 1938) is an Australian ballet dancer and ballet teacher. Born in New Zealand, she undertook her early training in Australia, and later at the Royal Ballet School. She returned to Australia in 1970, quickly rising to Resident Principal Dancer with the Australian Ballet. She is particularly noted for her partnerships with Rudolf Nureyev, first in the "Nutcracker" while with the Royal Ballet, …
- Alan Alder
Alan Alder is an Australian ballet dancer and ballet teacher. After training that included a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School, twelve months with the Covent Garden Opera Ballet and touring internationally as soloist with Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Alder returned to Australia in 1963 and rose to principal artist and then guest artist with the Australian Ballet. He married fellow artist Lucette Aldous in 1972. Currently he teaches in Perth, Australia.
- Debbie McGee
Debbie McGee (born 31 October 1958) is a British television, radio and stage performer who is best known as the wife and assistant of magician Paul Daniels. McGee is a former ballet dancer and, for three years, she was artistic director of her own ballet company. Presently, she is co-owner of a modelling agency.
- John Partridge
John Partridge (born July 24 1971) is an openly gay English singer and dancer best known for his performance in the musical "CATS". Born July 24 1971 in Manchester, England, he trained at the Royal Ballet School, Bush Davies Ballet, and Doreen Bird Ballet. In 1982 he appeared in the television adaptation of Stan Barstow's novel "A Kind of Loving".
- Isaac James
Isaac James was born in Ipswich, England in 1979. He trained with the Royal Ballet School from 1991 until 1994. He then studied drama at the Arts Educational School and began dance training again in 1998 at the Central School of Ballet. After graduating in 2000 he acquired a contract with the English National Ballet. He went on to work with the Birmingham Royal Ballet for three years. In 2003 he worked with Victor Ullate.
- Daniel Debourg
Daniel DeBourg is a pop singer that was born April 13, 1982 in Chelmsford, England. DeBourg got his starting writing songs for UK singer Jamelia (known for hits like "Thank You" and "Stop"). He was influenced by the videos by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson to pursue dance by the age of four, and by the age of eleven, he had been admitted to study at the exclusive Royal Ballet School. Although dance was his primary interest, as a teen he was also fronting bands.
- Matthew Koon
Matthew Koon (b. December 15 1993) is an English stage actor and one of the boys who plays the lead character of Billy Elliot in "Billy Elliot the Musical" at the Victoria Palace Theatre in the West End of London. He is the first boy from a Chinese background to take on the role of Billy Elliot. Koon is from Kays Gardens, Trinity in Salford, Greater Manchester. He lives with father, Arthur and his mother, Hilda, both originally from Hong Kong, China.
- Jiří Kilián
Jiří Kylián (or - common misspelling - Jiří Kilián is a Czech dance choreographer Kylián studied in Prague, as well as at the Royal Ballet School in London. He joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1968 and worked under John Cranko, where he began to choreograph. Kylián became Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theatre in 1976. His style is very energetic and contemporary and his best known works include "Symphony of Psalms" (1978).
- Rosalyn Landor
Rosalyn Landor (born 7 October 1958 in London) is an English actress. Educated at the Royal Ballet School, she began her career at the age of ten when she appeared in the Hammer horror film "The Devil Rides Out". She is best known for her roles on television series such as "Rumpole of the Bailey" (as Fiona Allways) and "C.A.T.S. Eyes" (as Pru Standfast) and a guest appearance in a TV adaption of "Sherlock Holmes" opposite Jeremy Brett.
- Hetty Baynes
Hetty Baynes is an English actres. She began her career as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School and made her professional debut at 12 in Rudolf Nureyev’s The Nutcracker at the Opera House, Covent Garden. She began her acting career at just 17 as an acting Assistant Stage Manager in repertory theatre.
- Judi Trott
Judi Trott (born 11 November 1962, in Plymouth) is an English actress, best known for her portrayal of the Lady Marion of Leaford in the popular 1980s series Robin of Sherwood. Trott started her career as a ballet dancer, having attended the Royal Ballet School in England. She later trained as an actress at the London Studio Centre and landed her first acting role in "Heaven's Gate" (1980).
- Melanie Jane
Melanie Jane Boorman is a London-based model from Lancashire, England. She is one of the most popular new models in The Sun, where she regularly appears as a Page Three girl. As well as regular appearances in The Sun, Melanie Jane can frequently be seen in a variety of UK Lad's Mags such as "FHM", "ICE", "Loaded", "Esquire", "GQ", "Zoo" and "Nuts".
- Beryl Goldwyn
Beryl Goldwyn (born 1930) is an English ballet dancer. Born near London, she started dancing at the age of three. She attended the Royal Ballet School and performed with the Royal Ballet in the Sleeping Princess (The Sleeping Beauty) with Dame Margot Fonteyn, when the Royal Opera House reopened after the Second World War in 1946. She danced with the Anglo Polish Ballet in 1949 and she joined the Ballet Rambert in 1950 later becoming its prima ballerina.
- Gloria Hooper Baroness Hooper
Gloria Dorothy Hooper, Baroness Hooper CMG, FRSA, FRGS (born 25 May 1939) is a British lawyer. The daughter of Frederick Hooper and Frances Maloney, she was educated at La Sainte Union Convent and at the Royal Ballet School. Hooper was further educated at the University of Southampton, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in law in 1960 and at Universidad Central del Ecuador, where she was a Rotary Foundation Fellow.
- Pedro Romeiras
Pedro Romeiras, started his career as a soloist with the National Ballet of Portugal after finishing ballet studies at the Royal Ballet School. He is a gold medal winner of the "II Prix Français de la Danse 1982" and won a National Globe Award as best dancer of 1982. Romeiras has danced many glamorous principal roles of classical repertoire ballets such as "Siegfried" in the full length version of Swan Lake, "Basilio" in Don Quixote, …
- Louise Robey
Louise Ann Robey was born 14 March, 1960 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her father, Malcolm, was an air force pilot, and her mother, Dallas, was an actress. She was schooled throughout Europe, including a stint at the Royal Ballet School. She moved to France and was soon discovered by famed fashion photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, who photographed her for Vogue Magazine. She also headed up a short-lived band called Louise and the Creeps. They never recorded.
- Sandy Rass
Sandy Rass (born August 28, 1974) is a British songwriter/producer of Fast Food Rockers and others, and a singer, dancer and actor, and a Psychologist with an IQ of 162. He was born in Chingford, London and trained at the Royal Ballet School for 3 years and then at Italia Conti Academy for a further 3 years as a singer/dancer/actor. Rass acted in numerous commercials and performed modelling work.
- Johnny Bovang
Johnny Bovang born Kristiansand, Norway, is a South African ballet dancer. He trained at the Royal Ballet School, London and joined the PACT Ballet Company, which was based in Pretoria, in 1983. He moved to the Cape Town City Ballet in 1997. He danced at the inaugaration of former South African president Nelson Mandela. He has performed as a guest artist in Tokyo, Glasgow and New Zealand. He is known for his partnerships of Janet Lindup, Leanne Voysey and Marianne Bauer.
- James Paine
James Paine (1717-1789) was an English architect. Essentially a Palladian, early in his career he was clerk of works at Nostell Priory. From the 1750s he had his own practice, and designed many villas, usually consisting of a central building, often with a fine staircase, and two symmetrical wings. The most important house which he was involved with was Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire where he succeeded Matthew Brettingham from 1759-1760 and suggested the colonnaded hall, …
- Yvonne Cartier
Yvonne Cartier’s artistic biography coincides with the rebirth of theatrical dancing in England after World War II. Born in New Zealand circa 1930, it was there that she took her first steps on stage, aged four, acting in a play. While studying ballet in New Zealand with Valerie Valeska, she saw the Borovanski Ballet on tour, and decided to make dance her career. In 1946, following in the footsteps of Rowena Jackson, …
- Annette Pain
Annette left the Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1997 and with her experience in choreography she now teaches children of the Royal Ballet School. Annette has three children with her partner Douglas Nicholson who is with the technical department of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Annette says she is very happy to be involved with Wear Moi as it was their dance wear that she enjoyed wearing as a professional dancer. Annette Pain - Lilac Fairy Annette Pain - Solitaire
- Bahareh Sardari
Bahareh Sardari (Guest Teacher & Choreographer) – Bahareh graduated form the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Academy of Dance. She was a soloist with the Iranian National Ballet Company as well as several other companies around the world. She has choreographed and performed in many theatres in the area including the Arlington Dance Theatre and the Kennedy Center. Bahareh has been teaching in the area for the past nineteen years.
- Valerie Wilder
Valerie Wilder , Executive Director Valerie Wilder was appointed executive director of Boston Ballet and the Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education in 2002. A former performing artist, she is a respected and successful executive with over twenty years of experience in leading major dance organizations.
- Kenneth Tharp
Kenneth Tharp is one of the outstanding dance artists of his generation. Having trained at The Place’s London Contemporary Dance School, he performed with London Contemporary Dance Theatre from 1981-1994. He has since worked as a dancer, choreographer, director and teacher -he was Artistic Director of the Sadler's Wells Youth Dance Company (1994-2000), Associate Artistic Director of the National Youth Dance Company (2002-3) and Education Co-ordinator for Arc Dance Company (2001–2003).
- Lynn Wallis
Lynn Wallis Co-Artistic Director (with Valerie Wilder ) 1986-1989 Born in Windsor, England, Lynn Wallis graduated from the Royal Ballet Upper School and performed with The Royal Ballet’s Touring Company, before taking on the duties of ballet mistress at The Royal Ballet School. Miss Wallis has had a distinguished career as a ballet mistress.
- Bruce Sansom
Bruce Sansom , Director Bruce was trained at The Royal Ballet School and joined the Royal Ballet Company in 1982. He was promoted to Principal in 1987 and his repertory included all the major leads in the classical repertoire along with created roles by Sir Kenneth Macmillan, David Bintley, Ashley Page, Christopher Wheeldon, Richard Alston and Siobhan Davies.