Julia Farron

[3] In 1931, Farron became the first pupil to receive a scholarship to study under the direction of Dame Ninette de Valois at the Vic-Wells Ballet School.

The following year in 1937, she danced her first created role, Pepe the Dog, in the ballet A Wedding Bouquet choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton.

Farron would stay with the company throughout its development into The Royal Ballet, eventually achieving the rank of principal dancer.

In early 1947 Julia danced, alongside Harold Turner, the Neapolitan Tarantella in La Boutique Fantasque .

[5][6][7] Farron was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to ballet.