Originally founded by Ninette de Valois as the Academy of Choreographic Art. Its students are chosen purely for their dancing talent and not for any academic ability. Famous dancers and choreographers from the school include Dame Margot Fonteyn, Dame Beryl Grey, Sir Kenneth MacMillan and Darcey Bussell.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Ballet School
{Beneath the crest of the Royal Ballet School:} The Bridge of Aspiration, the...
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 10. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 17. Buried in grave 2 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
Represented the Sunday School of the Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church in 1957.
Only 10 when caught in the cross-fire during the Tottenham Outrage.
A charity campaigning and working in child protection in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands. Founded as the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children by Earl Shaftesbury, Ben...
