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Henry Danton (born 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.〔Vaughan, David (1999). Frederick Ashton and his Ballets (second ed.). London: Dance Books. ISBN 1852730625.〕 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.〔Meinertz, Alexander. 'Vera Volkova – a biography'' (Alton: Dance Books 2007), p. 70-76. ISBN 978 1852731113.〕 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.〔Meinertz, Alexander. 'Vera Volkova – a biography'' (Alton: Dance Books 2007), p. 70-76. ISBN 978 1852731113.〕 As a dancer, Danton appeared with touring ensembles across the UK, Europe, Australasia and South America partnering ballerinas Svetlana Beriosova, Elsa Marianne von Rosen, Colette Marchand, Celia Franca, Irene Skorik, Lycette Darsonval, Sonia Arova, Mia Slavenska, Lynne Golding and others. As a teacher and balletmaster, Danton has worked extensively across the US and South America for more than 65 years, teaching, coaching and staging classical repertoire. An important influence on the nascent national ballet companies in Caracas, Venezuela,〔http://www.dance.net/topic/8190538/1/Ballet-General/Inspiration-03-Interview-with-Martine-van-Hamel.html&replies=1.〕 and Bogota, Colombia, he was also the first classical ballet teacher to be employed at the Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, and the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, and taught at the Fokine School of Ballet, Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall, and the Juilliard School in New York City.〔Chujoy, Anatole (1949). The Dance Encyclopedia (comp. and ed.) New York: A. S. Barnes. ISBN 0671225863.〕 In 2013, at aged 95, Danton continued to teach in Hattiesburg, Mississippi,〔(Henry Danton ). March 8, 2013〕 and also worked as a guest teacher at a number of schools and colleges including Belhaven University, where he staged Mikhail Fokine’s ''Les Sylphides'' in the autumn of 2013. ==Early life== Born Henry David Boileau Down to a family with French and Scottish ancestry and proud military traditions, Henry Danton attended Crowthorne Towers preparatory school as a child, and later Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a King’s Cadet. Aged 19, he was commissioned from the Academy in January 1939 as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and was promoted to Captain at the outbreak of World War II before being retired from active service in 1940. Danton was not finally discharged until late in 1945.〔Meinertz, Alexander. 'Vera Volkova – a biography'' (Alton: Dance Books 2007), p. 70. ISBN 978 1852731113.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Danton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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