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Dame Marie Rambert
Dame Marie Rambert 1888-1982, a founder of the English ballet, b. Warsaw as Miriam Rambam. Trained by Jacques Dalcroze in eurythmics, Rambert joined the Diaghilev Ballet Russe as an instructor in 1913. She danced with the company after studying ballet with Enrico Cecchetti. In 1920 she opened her... Read more |
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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth , 1858-1944, English composer, studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. Besides her many songs and chamber music she wrote operas, including The Wreckers (1906) and The Boatswain's Mate (1916), and a Mass in D (1893). In 1922 she was made Dame of the British Empire. Her... Read more |
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
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Dame Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie 1890-1976, English detective story writer, b. Torquay, Devon, as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. Christie's second husband was the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan , and she gained much material for her later novels during his excavations in the Middle East. An extraordinarily... Read more |
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Dame Laura Knight
Knight, Dame Laura (née Johnson) (1877–1970). British painter, born at Long Eaton, Derbyshire; her mother was an art teacher. From 1889 to 1894 she studied at Nottingham School of Art, where she met Harold Knight (1874–1961), who married her in 1903 and who became a successful... Read more |
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Dame Cicely Saunders
Dame Cicely Saunders (Cicely Mary Strode Saunders), 1918-2005, British physician, a pioneer in the modern hospice movement. She left Oxford during World War II to become a nurse (1944) and, after working as a medical social worker with cancer patients, a doctor (1957). As a physician she worked... Read more |
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Dame Maggie Teyte
Teyte, Dame Maggie (1888–1976). English soprano. After studying in London and Paris, Teyte made her public début while still under 18 in a Mozart festival at Paris in 1906. She was chosen and coached by Debussy in 1908 to succeed Mary Garden as Mélisande in his opera Pelléas... Read more |
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Dame Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Spark 1918-2006, Scottish novelist, b. Muriel Sarah Camberg. She lived in Edinburgh, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), London, New York, and Rome, and spent her last years in Tuscany. Spark's typically short, spare, and witty novels expose the pretensions, hypocrisies, and petty foibles of her... Read more |
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Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte , 1802-85, French poet, dramatist, and novelist, b. Besançon. His father was a general under Napoleon. As a child he was taken to Italy and Spain and at a very early age had published his first book of poems, resolving "to be Chateaubriand or nothing." The... Read more |
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Saint Bernadette
Saint Bernadette , 1844-79, French peasant girl who claimed to see the Virgin Mary in apparitions at a grotto near Lourdes, her home, in 1858. She was born Marie Bernarde Soubirous. The authorities, skeptical of her visions, subjected her to severe examinations and abuse. After years of... Read more |
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Rambert, Dame Marie
Rambert, Dame Marie (1888–1982) British ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer, b. Poland. She was a member...The Rite of Spring (1913). She founded her own school in 1920, which became known as Ballet Rambert in 1935. |
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...preeminence of Russian ballet is maintained by the Kirov and Bolshoi companies. In 1930 Dame Marie Rambert founded the first English ballet school, and in 1931 Dame Ninette de Valois established the Sadler's Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet... |
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Review Spring in an old step Rambert Dance Company
...Wells, London BALLET Rambert first turned me on to...Under their founder, Marie Rambert, they offered an endless...American inventiveness, Rambert tried extremes of abstraction...Nothing gelled. With Dame Marie gone, and ... |
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Back to the future? The relaunch of Rambert Dance Company.
...Club--in 1926, by Marie Rambert, a young Polish dancer...ground in London, it was Rambert who persuaded the young...and Nijinsky. But, as Dame Marie once remarked, if the...the past, then Ballet Rambert saw itself as the ... |
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'Mim' A Personal Memoir of Marie Rambert
...honest portrayal of Marie Rambert, the self-proclaimed...English ballet." Former Rambert Dance Company member Brigitte...highlights the life of Marie Rambert, an often forgotten contributor...a clear picture of the dame ... |
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Lifelong talent out on a limb
...in the late 1980s, Bruce left Rambert because he thought a new broom...Scarborough - although he trained at the Rambert School in London, so his association...formidable founder of the company, Dame Marie Rambert. Improbably, his invalid ... |
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Pay back time for Ghost Dancer; Retirement does not necessarily mean putting...
...will be a tremendous loss to the Rambert where he has been dancer, choreographer...His influence, not only with Rambert but British contemporary dance...past 40 years, including founder Dame Marie Rambert's decision to move away from... |
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TV Preview;The Right Re-Creation Of 'Spring'
...of interviews with Stravinsky; Dame Marie Rambert, the Polish-born dancer who...genesis of "Sacre" rather well. Rambert speaks of Nijinsky's earlier...post-Freudian love triangle." Rambert comments that she knew about Nijinsky... |
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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On This Day.(Comment)
...1888: Birth of ballet dancer and teacher, Dame Marie Rambert. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Rambert was sent to Paris to study medicine. She took...London and changed her name from Cyvia Rambam to Marie Rambert. Three years later ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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They're back, and this time they're popular
DAME MARIE RAMBERT once remarked that if the Royal Ballet...National Gallery of dance, then the Rambert company was the Tate. Well, she would...only have helped. Exactly 12 months ago Rambert Dance Company rose from the rubble... |
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Frederick Ashton, founder of Britain's Royal Ballet
...Diaghilev Ballet. His second teacher, Dame Marie Rambert, recognized that Mr. Ashton...their greatest advantage. For Dame Margot Fonteyn, Mr. Ashton created...director of the Royal Ballet. Rambert said the birth of British ballet... |
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Anniversaries
...and St Mesrop. TOMORROW Births: Marie-Alexandre Guenin, violinist...Georges Bernanos, novelist, 1888; Dame Marie Rambert (Cyvia Rambam, later Miriam Ramberg), founder of the Ballet Rambert, 1888; Carl Mayer, film director... |
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