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She joined the Royal Ballet Company in 1984 and she was made a Principal Dancer by sir Anthony Dowell in 1989. She danced leading roles in the classical repertoire and also in ballets by famous British choreographers F. Ashton and K. MacMillan. She left the Royal Ballet in 2001 to became a free-lance, guesting for American Ballet Theatre in New York, La Scala Ballet in Milan and K-Ballet in Japan.</p> <table> <tr> <td class="top"> <table class="zebra"> <tr> <td class="right">Website</td> <td> http://www.ballet.co.uk/links/dancers_rb_principals.htm </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td class="top pad_left three_column"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td class="nopad top sidebar"> <div class="box_ads"> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> <div class="box_cheese"> <div class="leader"> Account </div> You're not signed in. 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