24 Facts About Deborah Bull

Deborah Bull joined King's College London as Director, Cultural Partnerships in 2012.

Deborah Bull was invited to join The Royal Ballet in 1981, having toured with the company as a student during the summer.

The teachers that Bull identified as the "resident teachers" were Brian Shaw, Alexander Agadzhanov, Betty Anderton and the Norwegian Gerd Larsen.

Deborah Bull gained principal status in 1992, after the company's opening performance in Japan at which she danced the role of Gamzatti in La Bayadere.

Deborah Bull received particular praise for her performances in the works of George Balanchine and William Forsythe.

Deborah Bull danced at the 1993 and 1995 Harrogate International Festival, and in April 1996 was invited to perform in the first 'Diamonds of World Ballet' Gala at the Kremlin Palace, Moscow.

Deborah Bull toured Japan with Tetsuya Kumakawa and in the summers of 1994 and 1995 she organised, staged and starred in An Evening of British Ballet at the Sintra Festival in Portugal.

Deborah Bull retired from The Royal Ballet in August 2001 to take up a new position at the Royal Opera House in January 2002, as Creative Director, ROH2, developing a range of small-scale and experimental artistic initiatives and overseeing the programme in the theatre's alternative performance spaces.

Deborah Bull's address was described by Lord Gowrie, her debating partner, as 'the best speech I have heard on the Arts in 30 years'.

Deborah Bull has written articles for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Classic FM Magazine, New Statesman and The Spectator, and reviewed for The Telegraph, The Literary Review and several dance magazines.

Travels with My Tutu, written and presented by Deborah Bull, was screened over Christmas 2000.

Deborah Bull has presented live on BBC Two from the Royal Opera House and from Sadler's Wells, as well as a live Proms performance on BBC One in 2004.

Deborah Bull was the UK's commentator for the contest in 1999,2003 and 2005.

In March 2017, Deborah Bull was one of the judges who decided which of the finalists in the ballet category of the BBC Young Dancer 2017 competition would progress to the overall final.

Deborah Bull has made programmes for, and contributes regularly to, BBC Radio 4 including Dancing Away, Leaving Barons Court, Breaking the Law and Law in Order, A Dance Through Time, Happy Feet and Hothouse Kids.

Deborah Bull presented Sounds of Dance, a four-part series for BBC Radio 3 from December 2003 to January 2004.

In 2012, Deborah Bull presented the five-part BBC Radio 4 series, Dance Nation, on English dance.

Deborah Bull was a member of the Arts Council England from 1998 to 2005, and a governor of the BBC from 2003 to 2006.

Deborah Bull is a patron of the National Osteoporosis Society, Foundation for Community Dance and Escape Artists, sits on the voard of the Prix de Lausanne and is an honorary vice president of Voices of British Ballet.

Deborah Bull was a judge for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

In December 2011, it was announced that Deborah Bull had been appointed the first Executive Director of King's College London's King's Cultural Institute, and would be taking up the role in March 2012.

Deborah Bull was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's 1999 Birthday Honours.

Deborah Bull was nominated for a life peerage by the House of Lords Appointments Commission in June 2018.

Deborah Bull has been awarded honorary doctorates by University of Derby, Sheffield Hallam University, Kent University and the Open University.