Pauline Clayden


Pauline Clayden is a retired British ballerina.
Pauline Clayden was born in London. She studied at the Cone School of Dancing.
Her career started with Antony Tudor's London Ballet, then Ballet Rambert and, finally, as a soloist with Sadler's Wells Ballet from 1942-56.
Clayden created roles in Ninette de Valois' Promenade, Robert Helpmann's Miracle in the Gorbals, Frederick Ashton's Tiresias and Cinderella, John Cranko's Bonne-Bouche and Andrée Howard's Veneziana. She also danced many of the roles made for Margot Fonteyn.