History
It was established by the opera impresario James Mapleson and run from 1876 by the famous Austrian choreographer and dancer Katti Lanner (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for Katti Lanner; the institution is not mentioned in the entry for James Mapleson)
Lanner was often credited with having founded the School herself (eg New York Times, 16 November 1908)
According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, “[s]he later became sole owner of the school, intending ‘the resuscitation of the faded glories of ballet, and to bring a thorough knowledge of the choreography art within the range of those classes among whom talent most abounds’ ”
Performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane given by its pupils, who were children, were advertised in The Times throughout the 1870s and 1880s
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What was reforming about it?
It provided a high standard of professional dance training to children as young as ten (Alexandra Carter, Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet, 2005)
Where in Bloomsbury
This property was, however, unoccupied by the time of the 1881 census, when Lanner had moved to Kennington
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Pamela Horn, ‘English Theatre Children, 1880–1914: A Study in Ambivalence’, History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society, vol. 25 (1996)
There is a brief account in Alexandra Carter, Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet (2005)
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