Henry Danton
| Henry Danton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Henry David Boileau Down 30 March 1919 Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Dancer, teacher, ballet master |
| Employer | Sadler's Wells Ballet |
| Known for | Ballet |
Henry Danton (born Henry David Boileau Down; 30 March 1919) is a British dancer, teacher, and stager of classical ballet.
Danton was a prolific dancer in London during and immediately after World War II. In the UK, Danton performed as a soloist in the International Ballet partnering Mona Inglesby in Les Sylphides and Swan Lake 1943-44, and with the Sadler’s Wells Ballet 1944-46, where he appeared with Margot Fonteyn, Beryl Grey, and Violetta Elvin in the Rose Adagio and Pamela May in Les Sylphides and created leading roles in a number of works, most notably in Sir Frederick Ashton’s Symphonic Variations partnering Moira Shearer.
Privately educated with Judith Espinosa, he passed the Royal Academy of Dancing’s four exams with honours winning the Adeline Genée Silver Medal after just 18 months of classical ballet training. During the war Danton studied intensively with the Russian teacher Vera Volkova.
In 1946, he began his international dancing career travelling first to Paris to work with some of the leading Russian teachers of the day, including Victor Gsovsky, and the Imperial Russian Ballet ballerinas Olga Preobrajenska, Lubov Egorova and Mathilde Kschessinskaya.
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