Ronald Hynd (born 22 April 1931) is an English choreographer, and in his youth was a ballet dancer. In the

Royal Ballet The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded ...

in the late 1940s he began to dance with Annette Page, whom he later married. Page died on 4 December 2017. They have a daughter, Louise.Dean Speer & Francis Timlin,
A Very Merry Couple Ronald Hynd and Annette Page talk about dancing, PNB and Merry Widow
' from ''Ballet-Dance magazine'' dated April 2005 online at ballet-dance.com, accessed 28 April 2012 Ballets Hynd has choreographed include ''

The Merry Widow ''The Merry Widow'' ( ) is an operetta by the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The Libretto, librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein (writer), Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's ...

'' in 1975, and the ballet ''

Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Nicholls (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ), was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë family, Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novel ...

'' for the Royal Ballet Touring Company in 1974."Death and Entrances", The ''Oxford Dictionary of Dance'', Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell (eds), Oxford University Press, p. 126. . He recreated the nineteenth-century ballet '' Papillon'' in 1979 and created ''

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (, originally titled ''Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482'') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The title refers to the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which features prominently throughout the novel. I ...

'' ballet in 1988, both for the

Houston Ballet Houston Ballet, operated by Houston Ballet Foundation, is a professional ballet company based in Houston, Texas. The company consists of 59 dancers and produces over 85 performances per year. It is the 5th largest ballet company in the United ...

. His version of ''

The Nutcracker ''The Nutcracker'' (, ), Opus number, Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a '; ) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll. Th ...

'', produced by the

London Festival Ballet English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Alicia Markova, Dame Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin (ballet dancer), Sir Anton Dolin as London Festival Ballet and based in London, England. Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham ...

in 1976, added a love story to the traditional tale by giving the heroine an older sister who falls in love with Dr. Drosselmeyer's nephew against her parents' wishes. He also choreographed for companies such as

American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant. Through 2019, it had an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spr ...

, Ballet West, and Tulsa Theatre Ballet.
Pacific Northwest Ballet Press Release, 14 December 2009.

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External links

Josef Weinberger: The Creation of The Merry Widow BalletRonald Hynd's oral history interview
in the Rambert Archive 1931 births Living people British ballet choreographers English choreographers *Ronald Hynd Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-entertainer-stub