Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director...
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joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (now The Royal Ballet) under its creator, Ninette de Valois. He became one of the company's leading men, partnering Alicia Markova...
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where de Valois changed her surname from Groom to Grey. She began to attend the Sadler's Wells School in 1937 where her teachers were Ninette de Valois and...
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Kenneth MacMillan at Exeter and in Japan. Wildor played the role of Madame de Tourvel in a newly interpreted, 2005 production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses...
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Margot Fonteyn (redirect from Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias)
age of 14, she was invited to join the Vic-Wells Ballet School by Ninette de Valois. She succeeded Alicia Markova as prima ballerina of the company in...
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The Royal Ballet (section Prix de Lausanne dancer)
companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in 1931 by Dame Ninette de Valois. It became the resident ballet company of the Royal Opera House in...
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La Goulue (category People from Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine)
000 copies. 1934. Ballet. Bar aux Folies-Bergère. Choreography by Ninette de Valois. Music by Emmanuel Chabrier. Created for Ballet Rambert, London, with...
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past residents include the composer Gustav Holst (1874–1934) and Ninette de Valois (1898–2001), founder of the Royal Ballet. They each lived in houses...
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choreographer that he became famous. Ashton was chief choreographer to Ninette de Valois, from 1935 until his retirement in 1963, in the company known successively...
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training founded in 1926 by the Anglo-Irish ballerina and choreographer Ninette de Valois. The school's aim is to train and educate outstanding classical ballet...
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Tamara Karsavina – Imperial Method, Russia Other guests included Ninette de Valois, the founder of England's Royal Ballet company, and Anton Dolin, the...
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Dame Ninette de Valois, the great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Grant Smith, was born at Baltyboys. In her 1959 memoir Come Dance With Me, de Valois described...
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founder and music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Dame Ninette de Valois and Sir Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in the establishment...
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Krenek (1926) Orpheus and Eurydice, a ballet choreographed by Dame Ninette de Valois with music by Gluck (1941) Orpheus, a ballet made by choreographer...
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War. The 1934 ballet Bar aux Folies-Bergère with choreography by Ninette de Valois and music of Chabrier was created from, and based around, Manet's...
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independent of The Royal Ballet in London. In 1926, the Irish-born dancer Ninette de Valois founded the Academy of Choreographic Art, a dance school for girls...
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Royal Patron of the Academy. The first winner of the award was Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet...
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traditions in the United States (George Balanchine) and England (Ninette de Valois and Marie Rambert). Ballet master Serge Lifar went on a technical...
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British dance critic who founded the Camargo Society in 1930. With Ninette de Valois, he was influential in the development of the Royal Ballet School...
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Job: A Masque for Dancing (category Ballets by Ninette de Valois)
in 1931. The scenario is by Geoffrey Keynes, the choreography by Ninette de Valois, and the music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The ballet is based on the...
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role of the Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the play by Christopher Hampton after the French novel by Choderlos de Laclos, which opened...
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Russia was a completely new staging, produced and choreographed by Ninette de Valois for The Royal Ballet in 1950. The first full revival of the original...
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000 copies. 1934. Ballet. Bar aux Folies-Bergère. Choreography by Ninette de Valois. Music by Emmanuel Chabrier. Created for Ballet Rambert, London, with...
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19th-century classical repertoire, and creating roles in new ballets by Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton. After retiring from professional ballet, she...
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12 with Joan Lawson. Shortly after, she auditioned to train under Ninette De Valois for the Vic-Wells Ballet. Fallis studied at the Sadler's Wells Ballet...
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The Prospect Before Us (ballet) (category Ballets by Ninette de Valois)
Ballet by Ninette de Valois to music by William Boyce arranged by Constant Lambert. With its premiere in 1940, the first year of the war, de Valois set out...
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Bar aux Folies-Bergère (ballet) (category Ballets by Ninette de Valois)
one-act ballet created in 1934 with the scenario and choreography by Ninette de Valois. The music consists of piano works of Emmanuel Chabrier selected and...
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he provided instruction to the American ballerina Ruth Page and to Ninette de Valois. He also restaged many ballets, including Petipa's definitive version...
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by Frederick Ashton. 1934. Bar aux Folies-Bergère, choreography by Ninette de Valois, music by Emmanuel Chabrier, arranged by Constant Lambert. Role: La...
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Checkmate (ballet) (category Ballets by Ninette de Valois)
choreographer Ninette de Valois and composer Arthur Bliss. The idea for the ballet was proposed by Bliss, and subsequently produced by de Valois for the Vic-Wells...
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