It has one of the largest stock repertoires in the world, with 24 full-length ballets that include Swan Lake, Raymonda, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote and La Bayadere.
The most famous product of the workshop was the Triadic ballet, where the structure of the human body was destroyed with the help of complex volumetric geometric costumes, turning a human into a puppet.
Born in Georgia to civil rights activist parents, King found his own form of expression through the language of movement, and ultimately went on to found Alonzo King LINES Ballet, a San Francisco-based dance company.
Yet when John Maynard Keynes went, night after night, to watch Lydia Lopokova perform with the Ballets Russes in London in 1921, they fell ecstatically in love.
When the camp over, the city's professional ballet company offers 10 students a full-tuition scholarship for a year of training. The scholarship can be renewed.