A Portrait of the Royal Ballet

Larger hardback book with an introduction by Anthony Dowell and photographed by Anthony Crickmay. Published 1988. Gorgeous full page black and white ballet photographs throughout. 63 pages. Text by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Slight yellowing to the top edge of the dust cover. Small Ink dedication on the internal front cover. This…

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Larger hardback book with an introduction by Anthony Dowell and photographed by Anthony Crickmay. Published 1988. Gorgeous full page black and white ballet photographs throughout. 63 pages. Text by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Slight yellowing to the top edge of the dust cover. Small Ink dedication on the internal front cover.

This lovely photo book is a celebration in picture and words of one of the world’s leading ballet companies. Anthony Crickmay has photographed each member of the company for this volume; the result is the most remarkable and dramatic collection of ballet photographs ever published. These beautiful studies are complemented by pen portraits of all the leading members of the company (1988). Anthony Dowell, the Director of the company, provides in his introduction a brief history of the Royal Ballet.