English National Ballet

Nutcracker English National Ballet

Scene from the New Ballet of La Esmeralda, at Her Majesty's Theatre. Anonymous

Anthony Dowell as Oberon and Antoinette Sibley as Titania in The Dream by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera... Houston Rogers

David Blair and Nadia Nerina in La Fille Ma Gardee at the Royal Opera House Houston Rogers

Ballet at the Villa Marina, Douglas Manx Press Pictures

Ballet Dancers Rehearsing Edgar Degas

Margot Fonteyn in The Haunted Ballroom at the Sadler's Wells Theatre Pigeon Crowle

Russian ballet Anonymous

Alice Nikitina and Serge Lifar, Russian ballet dancers, 1924 Anonymous

Englishwoman. Costume design for the ballet The Magic Toy Shop by G. Rossini, 1919 Léon Bakst

Costume design for the ballet Cleopatra by A. Arensky, 1910 Anonymous

Englishman. Costume design for the ballet The Magic Toy Shop by G. Rossini, 1919 Léon Bakst

The Ballet Class Edgar Degas

Scene from the Ballet of Robert and Bertrand, at Drury Lane Theatre Anonymous

Ballet dancer Anonymous

Rudolf Nureyev and Merle Park in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at the Metropolitan Opera House New York Anthony Crickmay

Elephant Ballet in Bertram Mills' Circus Baron Nicholas de Racozcy

Sir Anthony Dowell and Dame Antoinette Sibley in Frederick Ashton's The Dream at The Royal Ballet Houston Rogers

Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann in Tchaikovsky 's The Sleeping Princess by the Vic-Wells Ballet Gordon Anthony

Madlle. Cerito, in the Ballet of Alma Anonymous

Ballet Studio Peter Miller

Alicia Markova in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker at Festival Ballet Gordon Anthony

Pony Ballet, 1910-11 William James Glackens

Lauren Potter and Jonathan Lunn of London Contemporary Dance Theatre Anthony Crickmay

Ballet dancer Anonymous

Costume design for the ballet Cléopatre, 1909 Léon Bakst

Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell in Mediation from Thais at the Adelphi Theatre Anthony Crickmay

Performance of the ballet 'L'Isle d'Alcine', 1673 Israel the Younger Silvestre

Scene from the new Ballet of 'The Wags of Wapping', at Drury-Lane Theatre English School

Ladies Of The Ballet: Behind The Scenes In The Palace, Mandalay, Burma, 1886 Anonymous

Scene from the New Ballet of Eoline, at Her Majesty's Theatre Anonymous

Ballet Rehearsal, 1885-1890(?). Edgar Degas

Rudolf Nureyev, Georgina Parkinson, Ann Jenner and Margot Fonteyn, in rehearsal for Symphonic Variations Houston Rogers

Frederick Ashton in Cinderella at the Royal Opera house Anthony Crickmay

Medea. Costume design for the ballet The golden Fleece, 1915 Nadezhda Vladimirovna Lermontova

Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann in A Wedding Bouquet by the Vic-Wells Ballet at the Royal Opera House J.W.Debenham