Farjeon, Annabel (1919–)
Farjeon, Annabel (1919–)
English ballet dancer and critic. Born 1919 in Buckleberry, Berkshire, England; dau. of Herbert and Joan Farjeon; niece of Eleanor Farjeon (children's writer).
Performed with Sadler's Wells Ballet in London (mid-1930s–40), where she danced in many premiers including Wells' Les Sylphides, Ninette De Valois' Le Roi Nu (1938), and Frederick Ashton's Cupid and Psyche (1939) and The Wise Virgins (1940); retired from performance career during WWII to work as dance critic and journalist; was ballet editor for New Statesman and Nation as well as Evening Standard (starting 1959); wrote a biography of her aunt Eleanor Farjeon, Morning Has Broken (1986).
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