My Life With the Royal Ballet as a Dancer and Teacher

In this book Valerie Adams describes herearly days at the Wessex School of Dancingin Bournemouth and joining the Sadler'sWells Upper School in London. After shebecame a member of the Sadler's WellsCompany at the Royal Opera House, shewent with the Company on their 3rd tourof the USA and Canada and went againthe following year, with Moira Shearer andRobert Helpmann in the Old Vic productionof A Midsummer Night's Dream.Dame Ninette de Valois trained ValerieAdams to teach and she went on to teach atthe Sadler's Wells School. She was invitedby the Dutch Government to form a BalletSchool at the Koninklijk Conservatoriumvoor Muziek at The Hague, in order toproduce dancers for the three Dutch BalletCompanies.After five and a half years, she returnedto teach at The Royal Ballet School, as itis now known. And two years later, DameNinette invited her to be at her side whenshe formed a Teachers' Course. She becameCourse Director in 1971, and finally retiredin 2000. This book is her story, and the storyof the Course.