Mona Inglesby and International Ballet Company clear plaque
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# The Story of Royal Festival Hall Standing before the gleaming modernist facade of the Royal Festival Hall in 1951, Mona Inglesby made history by bringing her International Ballet Company to this newly opened jewel of the Festival of Britain—the first ballet company ever to grace its stage. For a ...
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Royal Festival Hall
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Celebrating Mona Inglesby May 3rd 1918 - October 6th 2006 Founder, director and prima ballerina of the International Ballet Company 1941 - 1953 The first ballet company to appear at the Royal Festival Hall following the opening for the Festival of Britain in 1951, presenting the classical ballets reproduced by Nicolai Sergey events from notations he brought from the Maryinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg