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On Point: Royal Academy of Dance at 100
This display explored the 100-year history of the prestigious Royal Academy of Dance with a host of costume, designs, film and unique materials from the last century including shoes worn by Dame Darcey Bussell DBE at her 2007 farewell performance.
This display is now closed at V&A South Kensington
Display highlights
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Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev during rehearsals for the 1963 RAD gala -
Pupils from RAD's Step Into Dance programme -
Costume design for 'Jack in the Green', by Claud Lovat Fraser, about 1921, England -
Adeline Genée in 'A Dream of Roses and Butterflies'. Photo by Hugh Cecil -
Faculty of Education, 2018. Photo by Tim Cross -
Ballet exercises for athletes -
Tamara Karsavina coaching Margot Fonteyn in role of The Firebird. Photo by Douglas Elston, 1954 -
Tamara Karsavina in Russian dance costume, 1929. Dress by Natalia Gontcharova. Photographer unknown -
Harlequin statue by Alfred Gilbert for Production Club (RAD), date unknown. Presented to the RAD in 1924 by Stanislas Idzikowski -
Dame Darcey Bussell DBE, Carlos Acosta and Gary Avis in The Song of the Earth, ROH, 2007. Part of the Graham Brandon Collection, THM/110. Image by Graham Brandon -
A Dream of Butterflies and Roses, costume design, by Wilhelm, 1915, London
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Header image:
Harlequin statue by Alfred Gilbert for Production Club (RAD), date unknown. Presented to the RAD in 1924 by Stanislas Idzikowski. © Ali Wright, Dance Gazette