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orchestra. It grew to be a very large company, bringing ballet to the masses in city theatres, cinemas, seaside holiday camps and military camps across
Britain. The company continued to make extensive UK tours followed by 6 or 8-week London seasons on Shaftesbury Avenue. Because of their large audiences they generated substantial income which supported their innovations and overseas tours. As time went on more even ambitious ballets were added to the repertoire and the company was enlarged, reaching 80 in number. The company`s main scenic artist and costume designer was
170:. On the outbreak of war she had volunteered to drive an ambulance, but she soon decided her talents would be better used taking ballet to audiences in the bomb damaged cities of Britain. With a £5,000 loan from her father she formed the company Choreographic Productions Ltd, to perform under the name of International Ballet. It had a Council of Management chaired by Baroness Ravensdale, and as a "cultural organisation not operated for profit" it was exempt from entertainment tax. Inglesby engaged dancers, a small orchestra and the experienced retired dancer
407:, a 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre in northern Italy. Open to the sky, the audience of up to 30,000 sat on cushions on the stone tiers and on rows of seats on the arena floor where originally the gladiators battled and the lions ate the Christians. Some dressing rooms were in the lions' dens and some in the Christians' prison cells underneath the tiered stone seating. Performances started very late, after it got dark, but ballet nights alternated with opera nights so the artistes had a day to recover.
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had its two other resident companies with full programs (Sadler’s Wells
Theatre Ballet and Ballet Rambert) and the short lived Metropolitan Ballet, and three companies visited London from overseas (Ballets de Champs Elysees, Marquis de Cuevas’ Ballet and Roland Petit’s Ballet). International Ballet did one short eight week London season with a repertoire of ten ballets, none of them new. Naturally London critics found this disappointing.
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decided to present their ballets without them. Special lighting had to be devised, and new sets designed to complement the unusual lighting. The varied programme included the two
Massine ballets and the Russian classical ballets, but they had to be adapted somewhat to suit the new stage arrangement. This novel presentation of ballet attracted criticism from some quarters, but all performances of the long summer season were sold out.
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the choreography and style of the
Imperial Russian Ballet. Sergeyev respected her efforts so much that he left Sadler's Wells to join her full-time as ballet master, staying with her until he died in 1951. International Ballet became known as the vessel for classical productions in the grand Imperial Russian style.
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On the other hand, nation-wide critics across the country were almost without exception enthusiastic, about the productions and the artistic quality of the dancing. The repertoire, large for a touring company though small by London standards, was ample when visiting a town for a week or a fortnight,
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on the South Bank, London, and
International Ballet was the only company invited to present a programme of ballet for its inaugural season. The Festival Hall is principally a concert hall and has no proscenium arch or stage curtains. Temporary ones could have been erected, but International Ballet
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Ballet Annual printed a review of each of the company's London seasons in the next issue. A short description of the company together with a list of its productions to 1947 appeared in Ballet Annual 1948. A fuller description of the company under the heading "The
Inglesby Legend" is in Ballet Annual
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In 1941 International Ballet had official approval, in that a number of its male dancers were exempted from military service. They were considered to be doing their part for the war effort by helping to keep civilian morale high. By 1953 "official" opinion had changed, and
International Ballet was
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in London and stage the first
English productions of the Russian classical ballets. However, during the war International Ballet was the only company with the resources to stage full productions of these ballets, and Inglesby determined to put on productions exactly as Sergeyev dictated, reproducing
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This programme from the King's
Theatre, Hammersmith for November 1943 is typical of a fortnight on tour. 16 performances, each of 2 or 3 ballets selected from a repertoire of 8, with only the three heavily over-worked principal dancers. This rate of working went on throughout the war, and February
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The response of professional ballet critics was predictable and unsurprising. London critics were on the whole disparaging, with some notable exceptions. In the 1948–9 season for instance the Sadler’s Wells company at Covent Garden performed 22 ballets, four of them new productions. London also
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After this successful beginning the company embarked on a punishing schedule of two national tours per year, with 1 week or 2 week bookings at each venue and 3 matinees and 5 evening performances per week. Each tour was followed by a West End season of 6 or 8 weeks. Performances always had a full
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The expanded company had become very expensive to run, and whilst the
European tours had played to full houses, audiences on the UK tours were now dwindling. This was general in the theatre and film world in the mid 50s, and was due at least in part to the rapid spread of television. Britain now
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by a 'schools day'. 1600 youngsters sat in on a practice session, parts of a rehearsal, and part of the third act in full costume. International Ballet's memories of Hanley will have been happier than those of their competitor. During the Sadler's Wells visit in June 1949 the theatre burnt down
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International Ballet is probably unique amongst large ballet companies in that it paid its way without any private or state grant aid. Staging ballet has always been expensive, and Arts Council funding for the year 2013-2014 for those other three companies was Rambert £2M, English National Ballet
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When Edwin Derrington, Inglesby's husband, joined the company as Administrator in 1946 he instituted an educational programme. Special schools matinees were given, preceded by talks about the ballet and behind-the-scenes tours. Derrington also lectured to Rotary and W.I. and other local groups.
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In 1943 the company opened the International School of Ballet in Queensberry Mews, South Kensington. It was under the direction of Sergeyev himself, because he no longer went on the tours (he was then 67). A small number of scholarships were made available to male dancers too young for military
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in Kilburn, seated 4,004, and when the company played there for a week they played to full houses. The conventional theatres were still used however (e.g.), and Kay Hunter's book lists 48 provincial and 11 West End theatres where the company appeared during its 12 years of operation.
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The company was invited to do another season the following year but could not accept because of prior commitments overseas. However it had shown that ballet could be successful staged this way, and some time later the Festival Ballet made the Royal Festival Hall their London base.
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The company did one more UK tour after Barcelona, but gave its last performance on 5 December 1953. The artists dispersed to find other posts where they could and Mona Inglesby went into retirement. Ballet Annual published an "obituary" to the company in its 1955 edition.
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The first date given for each ballet is the date International Ballet first staged it. The ballet would have been in preparation for some time before that. The second is the date of the last performance that has been discovered in old theatre programmes.
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The last three chapters of Inglesby and Hunter's book are devoted to the European tours and contain a wealth of anecdotal detail as well as the information given here. The company launched itself onto mainland Europe in 1951 with a short season at the
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With home theatres in London, neither Sadler's Wells nor Ballet Rambert toured as extensively as International Ballet, and during the war no company could visit Britain from abroad. International Ballet was the only company many towns saw.
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WorldCat lists some 30 articles about International Ballet and its productions which appeared in the magazines Dance News, Dance Magazine, The Dancing Times, Ballet Today, Dance and Dancers and The Ballet Annual in the 40s and early 50s.
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on 19 May 1941 with 22 artistes and a full orchestra, consisting of a permanent nucleus of 15 augmented by local musicians. The soloists were Inglesby herself, the experienced ballerina Nina Tarakanova and the virtuoso star
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and from December 1946 onwards several of the Rank Organisation cinemas were included in the tours. These had huge seating capacities and when they were built they had been equipped with large stages. The largest, the
285:. The end of the war meant that male dancers were back from armed service and artistes could more easily be recruited from abroad. By the 1948 the London West End season which included
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In 2012 a plaque was put up inside the artists’ entrance of the Royal Festival Hall commemorating the achievements of International Ballet and its founder and Director, Mona Inglesby.
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call-up who would otherwise need to earn a living. Many graduates of the school went on to join the company, which continually needed fresh talent as it increased its numbers.
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Kay Hunter's book lists 213 artistes who appeared with International Ballet at some time in its 12-year life. Those who were not dancers were actors for the productions of
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As of 2014 there is no official history of International Ballet, but these two books contain much information. Details of both are in the list of references above.
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was coined for the first time by Ninette de Valois for the Sadler's Wells revival of 1946. Prior to that the ballet was universally called
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Just one of those theatres was the recently rebuilt Theatre Royal in Hanley., where in November 1952 the company preceded a performance of
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Eliot, Karen. "Starved for Beauty: British Ballet and Public Morale During the Second World War." Dance Chronicle 31.2 (2008): 175-210.
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was a British ballet company that operated, with great success, between 1941 and 1953. Its director throughout its existence was
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the company had 135 members, including artistes, musicians and staff, and artistes alone numbered 100 for the 1949 seasons.
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Many of the set and costume designs are now preserved in the Theatre Collection of Harvard University Library, as is the
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as ballet master, and she commissioned sets and costumes. By May 1941 the new company was ready to launch.
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1897:"Dance Now, Spring 2007, 'Time to get authentic'. Mona Inglesby's heritage assessed by Ismene Brown"
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Beaumont, Cyril W. "The International Ballet." Ballet & Opera December (1948): 6-16.
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Nicholas Sergeyev (1942–~50), Geoffrey Espinosa (~1948–53), Ernest Hewitt (~1948–53).
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and destroyed their scenery, costumes and entire collection of musical instruments.
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and other surviving International Ballet dancers, was broadcast in November 2012.
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and International Ballet was probably the only ballet company that town ever saw.
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in Barcelona. The audiences of this tour of Italy and Spain totalled 220,000.
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International Ballet was formed by the 22-year-old dancer and choreographer
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the only large British Ballet company refused a grant by the Arts Council.
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Stage Director - George Morgan, Harry Winton, Bertram Parham, Guy Bloomer
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before moving to Spain for a four-week season at the Gran Teatro del
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to notate all the ballets in the imperial repertoire. After the
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Wardrobe Mistress - Mrs Inglesby, May Attewell, Mrs Razelle
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established 20 years earlier, and the new touring company
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George Weldon, Ernest Irving, James Walker, Anthony Baines
1934:"Black-Out Ballet: The Invisible Woman of British Ballet"
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Company Director and Artistic Director - Mona Inglesby
1956:"Arts Council national portfolio funding programme"
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2008:"The Alhambra Theatre, Wellington Street, Glasgow"
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351:This theatre is now a theme bar and night club.
2108:"Theatre Royal, Hanley before the fire of 1949"
230:he left Russia, taking the notations with him (
2134:"Theatre Royal, Hanley after the fire of 1949"
245:and then came to England at the invitation of
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1534:"International Ballet Company, London"
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1604:. London: Guardian. 10 October 2006
1568:. London: Telegraph. 9 October 2006
363:and the opening of the newly built
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2054:by Graeme Smith published in 2011
1936:. the arts desk. 11 December 2012
1874:Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey (1947).
327:The Gaumont State Cinema, Kilburn
1405:(Associate Conductor, ~1949–53)
1363:Administrator - Edwin Derrington
2237:Sixteen years of Ballet Rambert
2086:"Rebuilt Theatre Royal, Hanley"
1643:"Ballet.co Postings Pages 3403"
1623:"Ballet.co Postings Pages 1795"
1549:but does not include these two
1375:Stanislas Idzikowski (1941–44).
210:King's Theatre Hammersmith 1943
1692:Staffordshire Evening Sentinel
182:The first tour started at the
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355:The Festival of Britain 1951
2314:"Honoria Plesch schooldays"
2222:The Royal Ballet - 75 years
375:European tours 1951 to 1953
318:Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo
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2481:Haskell, Arnold (editor).
2253:Haskell, Arnold (editor).
2159:Haskell, Arnold (editor).
1494:A BBC Radio 4 documentary
399:Inside the Arena di Verona
2485:. Adam and Charles Black.
2257:. Adam and Charles Black.
2239:. Hinrichsen Edition Ltd.
2163:. Adam and Charles Black.
1588:. London. 13 October 2006
391:The Roman Arena di Verona
359:1951 was the year of the
2235:Bradley, Lionel (1946).
1602:"Mona Inglesby obituary"
1582:"Mona Inglesby obituary"
1566:"Mona Inglesby obituary"
184:Alhambra Theatre Glasgow
146:), and the newly formed
2335:"Honoria Plesch career"
1850:. Groundnut Publishing.
228:1917 Russian Revolution
152:English National Ballet
144:Birmingham Royal Ballet
2483:The Ballet Annual 1948
2255:The Ballet Annual 1950
2220:Anderson, Zoe (2006).
2161:The Ballet Annual 1955
1987:"Stanislas Idzikowski"
1725:and co-founder of the
1152:Chervachidze/ Heckroth
1149:Chervachidze/ Heckroth
441:The end of the company
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94:Ballet Master in Chief
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140:Rambert Dance Company
128:Sadler's Wells Ballet
1663:Notes and references
1256:Capriccio Espagnoles
338:Gaumont State Cinema
172:Stanislas Idzikowski
120:International Ballet
97:Stanislas Idzikowski
32:International Ballet
19:International Ballet
2420:. 18 September 2011
1882:. Vawser and Wiles.
1848:Ballet in the Blitz
1482:Ballet in the Blitz
1435:, Nina Tarakanova,
1419:The Masque of Comus
475:Sergeyev Collection
458:founded in 1950 by
365:Royal Festival Hall
361:Festival of Britain
308:Capriccio Espagnole
275:The Masque of Comus
234:Sergeyev Collection
24:General information
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1277:Ballet Russe 1939
1054:Ballet Russe 1922
691:Ballet Russe 1909
584:Sophie Fedorovitch
579:Sophie Fedorovitch
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2523:History of ballet
2417:Independent.co.uk
2030:Independent.co.uk
2025:"Nina Tarakanova"
1723:The Dancing Times
1715:The Daily Express
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1209:Dorothy Stevenson
1179:Nicholas Sergeyev
1145:Nicholas Sergeyev
1130:Sleeping Princess
1063:Dances Espagnoles
1040:Nicholas Sergeyev
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917:Sleeping Princess
893:Nicholas Sergeyev
851:Nicholas Sergeyev
752:Nicholas Sergeyev
739:Polovtsian Dances
716:Nicholas Sergeyev
501:Facts and Figures
313:Gaiete Parisienne
287:Sleeping Princess
279:Sleeping Princess
247:Ninette de Valois
220:Nicholas Sergeyev
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920:$ Act 1
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241:and the
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