What exactly is The Royal Ballet?
It is a ballet company at the Royal Opera House. It is located in London, England.
Do they teach ballet or is it merely the site where ballets are performed?  Or is it a combination of the two?
They have a school specifically for teaching them called the Royal Ballet School.
That is very cool.  I assume that they are very well-known?  Personally, I know nothing about ballet.
I think they are pretty well-known. They house about 100 dancers.
Do you know the statistics of the dancers?  All men, all women?  50% of each; etc.?
, and continues to be one of the world's most famous ballet companies to this day, generally noted for its artistic and creative values. The company employs approximately 100 dancers and has purpose built facilities within the Royal Opera House. The official associate school of the company is the Royal Ballet School, and it also has a sister company, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, which operates independently. The Prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet is the late Dame Margot Fonteyn.
History.
In 1926, the Irish-born
of London (later the Royal Ballet) who still almost religiously perform many of these ballets with little changes from when they were first staged. It was through these revivals by Sergeyev in London with aid of these notations that the ballets of Petipa where first staged in the west, forming the nucleus of what is now known as the Classical Ballet repertory for not only the ballet of England but for the world.
In 1969 the Harvard University Library purchased the collection, which is today known as the Sergeyev Collection. The collection