Principal dancers of The Royal Ballet

Donald Whyte MacLeary (born 22 August 1937) is a retired British ballet dancer, a former principal dancer and a ballet master with the Royal Ballet, where he was a member of the company for 48 years.
Born in Glasgow, Donald MacLeary studied with Sheila Ross from 1950 to 1951 and at the Sadler's Wells Ballet School. He joined Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet in 1954. In 1955, he was promoted to soloist. In 1959, he became the Royal Ballet's youngest principal dancer, when Svetlana Beriosova requested that he become her regular partner.According to Encyclopædia Britannica, MacLeary was "noted for his strong finesse and natural romanticism".MacLeary created roles in:

Works by John Cranko
The Angels (1957)
Antigone (1959)
Brandenburg 2 & 4 (1966)
Works by Kenneth MacMillan
Solitaire (1956)
The Burrow (1958)
Baiser de la fée (1960)
Diversions (1961)
Symphony (1963)
Images of Love (1964)
Checkpoint (1970)
The Poltroon (1972)
Elite Syncopations (1974).MacLeary was ballet master of the Royal Ballet from 1975 or 1976 to 1979 and repetiteur to principal dancers from 1984. MacLeary retired at the end of the 2001/2002 season after 48 years with the Royal Ballet. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to dance.

Sarah Lamb (born 17 October 1980) is an American principal ballet dancer with The Royal Ballet, London.

Gelsey Kirkland (born December 29, 1952) is an American ballerina. She received early ballet training at the School of American Ballet. Kirkland joined the New York City Ballet in 1968 at age 15, at the invitation of George Balanchine. She was promoted to soloist in 1969, and principal in 1972. She went on to create leading roles in many of the great twentieth century ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Antony Tudor, including Balanchine's revival of The Firebird, Robbins' Goldberg Variations, and Tudor's The Leaves are Fading.
Balanchine re-choreographed his version of Stravinsky's The Firebird specifically for her. She left the New York City Ballet to join the American Ballet Theatre in 1974 as a principal dancer.Kirkland appeared in the dance role of Clara Stahlbaum in Mikhail Baryshnikov's 1977 televised production of The Nutcracker, which Baryshnikov also acted in as the titular Nutcracker/Prince. She left the American Ballet Theatre in 1984.