Margaret Graham Hills received the Stanley Holden Distinguished Teaching Award in June at the seventh annual Los Angeles Dance Invitational.
Margaret Graham Hills received the Stanley Holden Distinguished Teaching Award in June at the seventh annual Los Angeles Dance Invitational. Hills began her career with the Sadler's Wells Ballet and after an injury joined the faculty at The Royal Ballet Royal Ballet, the principal British ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. It is noted for lavish dramatic productions, a superbly disciplined corps de ballet, and brilliant performances from its principals. Granted a royal charter in 1956, the company was formed from the Sadler's Wells Ballet, which had its origins in the Academy of Choreographic Art, founded by Dame Ninette de Valois in 1926. School. She currently teaches adult ballet classes at The Westside School of Ballet in Santa Monica and has been adjunct professor of ballet at UCLA and at Santa Monica College. Over the years, Hills has taught in a number of illustrious L.A. studios including those of Stanley Holden, Tanya Lichine, and George Zoritch.
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