Dame Ninette, founding mother of the Royal Ballet, dies, aged 102.

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: March 8, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: LUKE LEITCH;JOHN STURGIS

DAME NINETTE de Valois, legendary ballerina and founding mother of the Royal Ballet, has died at the age of 102.

Born Edris Stannus in County Wicklow, Ireland, on 6 June 1898, Dame Ninette graduated from the Irish jig to the ballet, worked with W B Yeats at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and returned to London to establish ballet in Britain.

The dancing diva was first inspired at the age of 11 when she watched Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan.

Her fledgling career as a teenage dancer took her to "every pier in England" before she ...

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