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 ...

in the late 1940s he began to dance with

Annette Page Annette Page (December 1932 – 4 December 2017) was an English ballerina. She was a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, and was usually partnered onstage by her husband, Ronald Hynd. Life Brought up in Manchester, Page began to take ball ...

, 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'' (german: Die lustige Witwe, links=no ) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt t ...

'' in 1975, and the ballet ''

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'' 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''
Dance: Houston Ballet's Papillon, by Anna Kisselgoff, ''The New York Times'', April 10, 1981. in 1979
Houston Ballet to Present the RONALD HYND's The Merry Widow 9/19-29, September 4, 2013. and created ''

The Hunchback of Notre Dame ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (french: Notre-Dame de Paris, translation=''Our Lady of Paris'', originally titled ''Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482'') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. It focuses on the unfortunate story ...

'' ballet in 1988, both for the

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. His version of ''

The Nutcracker ''The Nutcracker'' ( rus, Щелкунчик, Shchelkunchik, links=no ) is an 1892 two-act ballet (""; russian: балет-феерия, link=no, ), originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaiko ...

'', produced by the

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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.
Jack Anderson, "DANCE VIEW: The Return of the Nutcracker, an Eternal Balletic Verity", ''The New York Times'', November 20, 1986. 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, it is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies. Through 2019, it had an annual ei ...

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

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External links

Josef Weinberger: The Creation of The Merry Widow BalletRonald Hynd's oral history interview
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