Roger Tully

Roger Tully taught at Bedford Gardens, at Balanssi Studios in Helsinki, and at New York. Among his prominent disciples were Clinton Luckett, Ballet Master at American Ballet Theatre, Daniel Baudendistel, former Joffrey Ballet soloist, now a choreographer and teacher, Francesco Mangiacasale and Julie Cronshaw, the latter both of London. In November 2006 and February 2007, Roger Tully was invited by the ‘Inspection des Conservatoires’ of the City of Paris to teach a series of master-classes. In February 2007 and again in January/February 2008, Roger Tully taught master classes at the Accademia nazionale di Danza at Rome.

When Alexander Sombart was to return to the stage as Eugene Onegin alongside Lynn Seymour as Tatiana, he was coached by Roger Tully. Thereafter, Tully taught at Dance Works for five years, and again coached Alexander Sombart, then Natalia Makarova’s partner, to prepare the latter’s return to the Maryinskii Theatre in 1989.

In the early 1980s, Roger Tully purchased a late nineteenth-century dance studio at Bedford Gardens, where Marie Rambert had first taught on arriving in England. He began to teach from there, as well as at Pineapple Studios.

In the 1950s, Roger Tully danced in musicals at the Drury Lane Theatre, and then with Walter Gore’s company, where he partnered Gore’s wife Paula Hinton. In the early 1960s, he joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, then led by Ludmilla Chiriaeff, where he danced for several years.

Roger Tully (3 February 1928 – 26 February 2020) was an English dancer and teacher of classical dance.