 Van Praagh also invited the Royal Ballet's Ray Powell to temporarily became the company's first ballet master, with Leon Kellaway (brother of Cecil Kellaway), a former dancer with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet, as the company's first ballet teacher.In later years Sir Robert Helpmann CBE, Marilyn Jones AM OBE and Maina Gielgud AO made major contributions as Artistic Directors of the Australian Ballet.In 1964 van Praagh established the Australian Ballet School, which was formed specially to train dancers for the company and remains the company's associate school to this day.