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Remembering The Sleeping Beauty: 'Our ballet made you forget the horror of war'


Henry Danton dances with Margot Fonteyn in The Sleeping Beauty in 1946
Credit: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis Historical
It’s 75 years ago this week that Henry Danton stepped onto the Royal Opera House stage, performing in the Sadler’s Wells (now Royal) Ballet production of Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty – the venue’s grand reopening after the war. A former army captain, Danton had gladly traded in his bayonet for ballet shoes, and, in 1946, was living out his dream of dancing at Covent Garden. Now aged 101 – turning 102 in March – Danton is the oldest surviving dancer who has performed with the company. ....

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