Darcey Bussell

Darcey Bussell

Dame Darcey Andrea Bussell, (born Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pemberton Crittle; 27 April 1969) is an English retired ballerina and a former judge on the BBC television dance contest Strictly Come Dancing. Trained at the Arts Educational School and the Royal Ballet School, Bussell started her professional career at Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet, but after only one year she moved to the Royal Ballet, where she became the youngest-ever principal dancer at the age of 20 in 1989. Bussell is widely acclaimed as one of the great British ballerinas.Bussell remained with The Royal Ballet for her whole career, more than two decades, but also performed as a guest artist with many leading companies including NYCB, La Scala Theatre Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and the Australian Ballet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Darcey Bussell has received more than 3,070,774 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Darcey Bussell is the 96th most popular dancer, the 6,606th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 6th most popular British Dancer.