The Collection
Check out my digital collection database, with theatre programmes dating all the way back to 1832!
Blog
On the blog I mainly talk about ballet history, including looking through forgotten ballets, and shining the spotlight on historic performers.
Latest Posts:
- Spotlight On: Beatrice AppleyardIn the late 1920s Ninette de Valois founded a School of Dancing in London. Her ultimate aim was to form a British Ballet company. Around the same time, de Valois … Continue reading Spotlight On: Beatrice Appleyard
- 20th February 1946: The Premiere of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet’s Sleeping BeautyIn the last months of the Second World War, the Council for the Encouragement of Music and Arts were discussing what to do with a London theatre that was currently … Continue reading 20th February 1946: The Premiere of the Sadler’s Wells Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty
- The Ballerinas of the Empire’s Giselle, 1884In December 1884 London’s Empire Theatre premiered a new production of the classic ballet Giselle. The theatre had only opened in April that year, but, alongside some shorter divertissements, the … Continue reading The Ballerinas of the Empire’s Giselle, 1884
- The International Ballet: Tracing their Tours, 1942Note: This is the second part of a series that aims to trace performances by the International Ballet. To read Part 1, which I very much recommend doing, click here. … Continue reading The International Ballet: Tracing their Tours, 1942
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