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Known for. Founder of Ballet Rambert, now Rambert Dance Company. Spouse (s) Ashley Dukes (1918–1959; his death); 2 daughters. Dame Marie Rambert, Mrs Dukes DBE (20 February 1888 – 12 June 1982) was a Polish-born English dancer and pedagogue who exerted great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher.
A Tragedy of Fashion. A Tragedy of Fashion, or the Scarlet Scissors is a ballet which was first choreographed and performed on 15 June 1926 by Frederick Ashton, who starred with Marie Rambert. The BBC described this debut as "a pivotal moment in the history of ballet," as it launched the careers of both Ashton and Ballet Rambert. [1]
Dancers in Nicholas Roerich's original costumes. From left, Julitska, Marie Rambert, Jejerska, Boni, Boniecka, Faithful. Paris's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées was a new structure, which had opened on 2 April 1913 with a programme celebrating the works of many of the leading composers of the day.
Rambert (known as Rambert Dance Company before 2014) is a leading British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingdom, and today, as a contemporary dance company, continues to be one of the world's most renowned dance companies.
In 1951, her family sent her to London, where she attended Marie Rambert’s dance school, but she quickly realised that she was not a dancer and returned to Burma. In 1954, a friend of American director Robert Parrish visited her home and took a photograph of her, which he sent to Parrish.
The expanded version, Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan, premiered on 15 June 1976, at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, during Ballet Rambert's 50th anniversary gala. It has since been revived by Rambert Dance Company, the Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet and National Ballet of ...
List of prima ballerinas. This is a list of people who have been awarded the title prima ballerina, the second highest title that can be awarded to a ballerina: prima ballerina assoluta being the first. " Prima ballerina literally translates to “first principal dancer” from Italian and, in the United States, is better known as someone who ...
The Mercury Theatre was opened in 1933 by Ashley Dukes for the production of new drama and to serve as a centre for the Ballet Rambert, run by his wife Marie Rambert. The building, at 2, Ladbroke Road, London W11, had been built in 1851 as a Sunday school for the adjacent Congregational Chapel, but was extensively altered to serve as a theatre.