London Ballet

London Ballet was a short lived British ballet company founded by the British choreographer and former Ballet Rambert dancer Antony Tudor in 1938, along with Rambert members Hugh Laing,[1] Andrée Howard, Agnes de Mille, Peggy van Praagh, Maude Lloyd and Walter Gore. With the onset of World War II, in 1940 they were invited to New York, joining Richard Pleasant's and Lucia Chase's reorganized Ballet Theater, which later became the American Ballet Theatre.

In 1961 Walter Gore founded a new company, also called London Ballet. He was its director from 1961 until it closed in 1963.[2]

References
  1. Re: Laing (1911-1988), see his entry in The Encyclopedia of Dance & Ballet, Mary Clarke and David Vaughan, eds (New York: Putnam, 1977), pp. 202f; and William Como, "Editor's log: Hugh Laing", Dance Magazine (July 1988), p. 32
  2. Crisp, Clement (1988). "The Life and Work of Walter Gore". Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research. 6 (1): 3–6. doi:10.2307/1290742. JSTOR 1290742.
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