Powerpoint image, presentation by Julie Cronshaw,  Blue Lecture Series for CICB, Feb 2022

The Cecchetti Society in England, 1922-2022 A Centenary Review

The Ballets Russes arrive in London, 1918 Towards the end of the Great War in 1918, a group of exhausted, near-starving and war-weary dancers of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes arrived in London for a series of performances at the Coliseum. How fortunate would this turn out to be for English dancers and audiences over the next…