Biography
English dancer Helen Crawford is Ballet Mistress and is a former First Soloist of The Royal Ballet. She trained at The Royal Ballet School and joined the Company in 1999, promoted to First Artist in 2003, Soloist in 2008 and First Soloist in 2009. She retired as a dancer in 2019 and was appointed Ballet Mistress.
Crawford was born in Ipswich and trained at the Linda Shipton School of Ballet before joining The Royal Ballet School. While at the School she danced Clara (The Nutcracker) with the Company in 1993 and solo roles in Raymonda Act III and La Bayadère in the School’s annual matinees.
Her roles with the Company included Lise (La Fille mal gardée), Olga (Onegin), Lilac Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty), Fairy Winter (Cinderella), Myrtha (Giselle), Lescaut’s Mistress and Courtesan (Manon), Harlot (Romeo and Juliet), Olga (Anastasia), Vivandière Doll and Rose Fairy (The Nutcracker), Caroline Beaufort (Frankenstein), Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan and roles in La Valse, Scènes de ballet, Tryst, Qualia, Tales of Beatrix Potter, Requiem, Ondine, Agon, Les Sylphides and Theme and Variations.
Crawford has created roles in several new works, including Wayne McGregor’s Qualia and Liam Scarlett, Will Tuckett and Jonathan Watkins’s ‘Diana and Actaeon’ (Metamorphosis: Titian 2012).
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Photos
Artists of The Royal Ballet in The Firebird, The Royal Ballet
First Soloist Helen Crawford supporting The Royal Ballet's Pointe Shoes Appeal
Helen Crawford, Emma Maguire and Dawid Trzensimiech in Jewels, The Royal Ballet
Helen Crawford as Nurse, Anna Rose O'Sullivan as Juliet, Erico Montes as Friar Laurence and Marcelino Sambé as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Ballet
Helen Crawford, James Hay and Anna Rose O'Sullivan in ‘Emeralds’ from Jewels, The Royal Ballet
Helen Crawford in Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan, The Royal Ballet
Rupert Pennefather as Crown Prince Rudolf and Helen Crawford as Mitzi Caspar in Mayerling
Helen Crawford as the Lilac Fairy and artists of The Royal Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty
Helen Crawford as Tsarevna, Ryoichi Hirano as Ivan Tsarevich and artists of The Royal Ballet in The Firebird, The Royal Ballet
Helen Crawford as Nurse and David Hallberg as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Ballet
Helen Crawford as Nurse and Beatriz Stix-Brunell as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Ballet
Helen Crawford in Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan
Helen Crawford in Giselle, The Royal Ballet
Artists of The Royal Ballet in The Firebird, The Royal Ballet
Helen Crawford, Laura Morera and Bennet Gartside in rehearsal for Anastasia, The Royal Ballet
Helen Crawford
Helen Crawford in Swan Lake, The Royal Ballet
