About the Yorkshire Ballet Seminars
David Gayle MBE
David Gayle’s first residential summer ballet course was officially opened at Ilkley College on 4 August 1975 by Dame Ninette de Valois OM, CH, DBE, founder of The Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet School. The first masterclass was then taught by Dame Alicia Markova DBE, DMus.
Marguerite Porter
Marguerite Porter trained in Yorkshire and later at The Royal Ballet School in London. After two years she joined The Royal Ballet Company where she remained for 20 years, becoming a Guest Artist for three further years. Marguerite is now a Governor of the Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
She became a Senior Principal Ballerina in 1978 and danced all the major roles in the repertoire including: Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty; Odette/Odile in Swan Lake; Juliet in Romeo and Juliet; the title role in Manon; Giselle; The Firebird; Raymonda Act III; The Dream (Titania); A Month in the Country (Natalia Petrovna); Les Biches (The Hostess); A Wedding Bouquet (Julia); Daphnis and Chloé (Chloé); Scènes de Ballet; My Brother My Sister (First Sister); Hamlet (Ophelia); La Bayadère (Nikiya); Les Patineurs (White Pas de deux); Monotones II; Symphonic Variations; Serenade; Dancers at a Gathering; In the Night; The Concert; Afternoon of a Faun; Apollo (Terpsichore).
After leaving The Royal Ballet she published her autobiography: Ballerina, a Dancer’s Life. She made a video based on ballet called Balletcise.
Television and films include: The Magic Toyshop; The Magic of the Dance (with Margot Fonteyn); VE Day Royal Gala with Sir Anthony Dowell; and a British Film Institute film, Comrade Lady.
Choreography includes: The Garden of Eros for the London City Ballet; Private Lives (Royal National Theatre); East Lynne (Greenwich Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa (The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh).
Marguerite made her debut Broadway appearance as The Queen in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in 1998. In 2003 she appeared in Rodgers and Hart’s On Your Toes at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre, playing the role of Vera Baronova.
Marguerite has been fortunate enough to work with some of the greatest names in the last century. These include: Jerome Robbins; George Balanchine; Anthony Tudor; Glen Tetley; Sir Frederick Ashton; Sir Kenneth MacMillan; Dame Ninette de Valois; and finally Rudolf Nureyev, whom she was partnered by in Swan Lake, La Bayadère, Apollo, Raymonda, Dancers at a Gathering and Konservatoriet.
Marguerite has taught at The Yorkshire Ballet Seminar Summer School for the past 16 years, also at The Royal Ballet School, The Rambert School and Company, and was a Guest Teacher for the Hong Kong Ballet Company.
Our sponsors
The Yorkshire Ballet Seminars wish to express their gratitude to the following sponsors for their kind support
- The Audrey and Stanley Burton Trust
- Thomas and Gordon Black Charitable Trust
- The Peter Marshall Charitable Trust
- W W Spooner Charitable Trust
- The Coulthurst Trust
- The Linbury Trust
- The Wayne Sleep Dance Foundation
- The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation
- Sir George Martin Trust
- The Monument Trust
- Capezio
- British Harlequin plc
- Mr Roger Chubb
- Mr & Mrs David Morrison
- The Kenneth Hargreaves Trust
- The London Ballet Circle
- Mr Michael Broderick
- James Hogan Esq
- Charles D Glanville Esq
- Mr & Mrs Tom Jowitt
- Mr William Cavendish
- D M Dell CB
- Mr Derek Oldfield
- Mrs James Cookson
- Lady St Oswald
- Mrs Liz Hibbert-Foy
- The Gladys Hughes Prize
- Anne and Rock Battye
- The Helen Robinson Scholarship
- Miss Serena C Martin
- Mr Craig Dodd
- Mr Michael Johnstone
- Mrs Sheila Cross
- Mr & Mrs John Boyle
- The Sussex Opera & Ballet Society
- Mr Peter H Barrett
- Margaret Allenby-Jaffe Scholarship
- Jill Cleminson
- Peter Brownlee
- Rohan Maculloch
- Dean Court Hotel
- Elaine Garwood
- Violet Hopwood
- YBS Birmingham Supporters
- Ballet.co
- The Yorkshire Ballet Seminars gratefully acknowledge a grant from The Musical, Opera and Ballet Trust in memory of Sander and Edith Gorlinsky
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