Obituary: Dame Ninette de Valois

The Independent - London | March 9, 2001| | Copyright

NINETTE DE VALOIS was more revered, more influential, more honoured and respected, more famous than any dancer before her, and the acknowledgements grew as her life lengthened. Ten or fifteen years ago her dying would have signified in British cultural history as the departure of the founder of the Royal Ballet, the Royal Ballet School and much more besides. "My heart is too strong," she said regretfully. "It should have been me" - as friends or those she had taught died around her: Sir Frederick Ashton, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Dame Peggy van Praagh, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, John Field, Ailne ...

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