Her intention was to form a repertory ballet company and school, leading her to collaborate with theatrical producer and theatre owner Lilian Baylis.

The Georgian building is a former royal residence and hunting lodge built during the reign of King George II.

It is the school's permanent premises and there has been extensive redevelopment of the site to provide dance and academic facilities and accommodation for students.

Later in their training, students study ballet repertoire, solos and pas de deux and boys undertake upper body conditioning.

The Royal Ballet School's Covent Garden base was established in 1955, when the younger students were moved to White Lodge.

Later in 2003, the school relocated to new premises, and the former Barons Court site now houses the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Facilities for academic education include four classrooms, a library with computer equipment, an art studio and audiovisual suite.

All the dance studios are linked to the audiovisual suite so that classes and rehearsals can be filmed as a training tool, enabling the dancers to analyse themselves.

Alongside a timetable of intensive ballet training, students also study pas de deux, solos, repertoire, character, contemporary dance, stagecraft, make-up, and body conditioning.

Each year The Royal Ballet School presents its Summer Performances, featuring students from all age groups in a wide variety of classical and contemporary works.

The programme includes new works and heritage pieces from the Royal Ballet repertory and culminates in a grand défilé, in which every student of the school appears on stage in a choreographed curtain call.