Today we celebrate the birthday of our founder Dame Ninette de Valois and her immense contribution to British ballet.

Today we celebrate the birthday of our founder Dame Ninette de Valois and her immense contribution to British ballet.

Inspired to create a repertory ballet company with dancers drawn from the School, she also founded The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet and nurtured some of the world’s most renowned dancers and choreographers…

Thanks to Dame Ninette’s vision and leadership, we continue to nurture the next generation of young dancers and choreographers, helping them excel on the world stage.

In the words of Dame Ninette, ‘Respect the past, herald the future, but concentrate on the present.’