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354 pages. inside cover and page edge lightly foxedThis book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The R oyal Ballet, tracing the company''s growth, and its great cultural importance - an indispensable book for all lovers of ballet.In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, The Royal Ballet - as it became - was established as one of the world''s great companies. It has produced celebrated dancers, from Margot Fonteyn to Darcey Bussell, and o ne of the richest repertoires in ballet.The company danced through the Bl itz, won an international reputation in a single New York performance and added to the glamour of London''s Swinging Sixties. It has established a distinctive E nglish school of ballet, a pure classical style that could do justice to the 19t h-century repertory and to new British classics.Leading dance critic, Zo? ? Anderson, vividly portrays the extraordinary personalities who created the com pany and the dancers who made such an impact on their audiences. She looks at th e bad times as well as the good, examining the controversial directorships of No rman Morrice and Ross Stretton and the criticism fired at the company as the Roy al Opera House closed for redevelopment.…