BALLET CHRONICLES

BALLET CHRONICLES

This is the site for Ballet Chronicles, which is a unique work detailing, season by season, all ballets ever performed, at home or abroad, by The Royal Ballet, The Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet School, from when they first started public performances to the present day. I have included all full length ballets, one act ballets, and divertissements. I have also included details of all Galas performed by the three institutions.

The season by season lists of repertoire show the title of each work accompanied by the name of the Choreographer and Composer together with the Designer and Première date, in the first season of performance, commencing in 1926. There are indices for all three institutions of all full length, one act ballets and divertissements and indices of all the dancers of The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet from inception to date showing all the seasons that each performed in together with separate schedules “The Choreographers, The Ballets, The First Casts”, “The Composers, The Ballets”, “The Designers, The Ballets” and “ The Ballets, A Chronology”.

If you click here you will see the table of Contents which will give a better idea as to the wealth of information that is contained with Ballet Chronicles, and if you click here you will be taken to a sample page which shows how all this information is detailed in the season by season lists of repertoire and also the manner of presentation.

I have dedicated the work to “Madam” and, following the hugely successful completion of The Royal Ballet School's White Lodge Redevelopment Appeal, I have decided that all future proceeds will be paid to the The Royal Ballet School's Student Hardship Fund.

Dame Monica Mason, the Director of The Royal Ballet, has very kindly written a wonderful foreword, and there is a list of “acknowledgements” within Ballet Chronicles to reflect my sincere thanks to those who helped me with my research.

I donate Ballet Chronicles freely to the three Institutions as well as to many other bodies and individuals involved in the performing arts. If you feel that you fall within these categories and may qualify for a free copy then please apply here. Students of ballet who would like to have access to Ballet Chronicles should approach their school who can then, in turn, contact me for a free copy.

I started this work when I wanted to look up the season in which The Royal Ballet last performed a certain piece and found that no appropriate reference work existed in the public domain.

I therefore resolved to prepare a detailed Chronicle to show each and every work performed season by season. During my research the actual performance programmes for nearly all the performances ever given by The Royal Ballet, The Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet School both at home and abroad have passed through my hands. Ballet Chronicles will require the task of updating each year as a further season of Repertoire is added for each Company, and also bringing the History up to date. It is intended to keep Ballet Chronicles updated and available for the foreseeable future.

I have designed Ballet Chronicles to be viewed on a PC as it does not realistically work in paper form, and no paper version is therefore available.

If you would like to read Ballet Chronicles please follow the directions below relating to whichever is your preferred version.

For the download version please use the link below to download it and then all that is then necessary, is to open Ballet Chronicles and follow the instructions given within it at the “password required” stage. The acquisition of the necessary password to own and study the entire volume will cost you £10.00. Directions as to how payment is to be made will be given on application or you can use PayPal simply by selecting the download version from the drop-down list and clicking on the button below and by that means payment is possible by Debit or Credit Card.

Alternatively, if the entire on-line version is your preferred version this will cost you £15.00. Directions as to how payment is to be made will be given on application or you can use PayPal simply by selecting the on-line version from the drop-down list and clicking on the button below and by that means payment is possible by Debit or Credit Card. Please then contact me to apply for your password which I will send to you together with your individual user name both of which will be needed when accessing Ballet Chronicles using the link below.

It is only necessary to purchase Ballet Chronicles once, as all purchasers are notified just as soon as a new edition is available to download (or read on-line) and your computer will remember and apply your original password for the download versions so long as you save Ballet Chronicles in the same place on your computer.

The download version will only run satisfactorily in Windows 95, or later,* and a recent version of Adobe Reader is necessary to study the contents, so I have included a direct link to Adobe for their free PDF Reader download within Ballet Chronicles itself. The on-line version is capable of being read on virtually any operating system including a Mac through your Internet browser.

To obtain the download version - click Ballet Chronicles Download version

To access the on-line version - click Ballet Chronicles On-Line Version

Any problems, please contact me.

* Some Macs can emulate windows and thus run Windows programmes, and some Mac users have run e-books compiled with the software I use with complete success. I cannot, therefore, guarantee that the download version will run on a Mac but …. however, the new on-line version should be perfectly capable of being read on a Mac or any other operating system.

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