Derek Deane

Birthplace Redruth, UK Training Royal Ballet School Previous affiliations Senior Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet, Deputy Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Artistic Director of English National Ballet until 2001 Created work for The Royal Ballet (Fleeting Figures), Birmingham Royal Ballet (The Picture of Dorian Gray, To The Power of 2), English National Ballet (Giselle, Alice in Wonderland, The Nutcracker, Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, Paquita, The Sleeping Beauty), La Scala Milan (The Dance of the Hours), Teatro San Carlo Naples (The Nutcracker, Giselle, La bayadere), Shanghai Ballet China (Swan Lake, Romeo & Juliet), Kobayashi Ballet Tokyo (Giselle), Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (Hungry Heart, Simply Simon, Anything Goes), Toulouse Ballet (Cinderella), National Ballet of Zagreb (The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake) Career highlight Creating acclaimed ‘in the round’ productions for English National Ballet, including Swan Lake which was seen by 250,000 people at arena venues in Hong Kong, Australia and the UK Other info Awarded an OBE for services to dance in Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2000