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Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois are just two of some of the great women that England owes their ballet greatness to. This is an outline on how the Royal Ballet came to be.
Marie Rambert (1888 - 1982) was actually born Cyvia Rambam in Poland. In those days dancers felt that they had to have French or Russian names to succeed, so most of the names were changed. She was trained in Eurythmy and then joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and helped Nijinsky with the Rite of Spring.
In the early 1920's she started the Rambert Ballet School,ED hardy belt, and a ballet company where Frederick Ashton and Antony Tudor got their start in the ballet world. Ballet Rambert is now known as Rambert Dance and is a well known and great contemporary troupe of dancers.
Ninette de Valois (1898 - 2001) was born in Ireland and also changed her name from Edris Stannus. She also danced for Diaghilev and also formed her own company and school. The company started as the Vic-Wells Opera Ballet,Cheap Carrera sunglasses, went on to become Sadler's Wells Ballet, and is now known as The Royal Ballet. Ninette de Valois was a choreographer herself,Evisu jeans short, and did numerous revivals of the nineteenth century classics. She believed in having a mix in the company's repertory of traditional classical,Shox R5, romantic and modern works. Frederick Aston became her perfect partner,Nike Shox TL1, and together they forged the company style that melded rigorous schooling and corps work, strong narrative instincts and gentle lyricism. From 1935 Frederick Aston created ballets for future The Royal Ballet and used a young dancer called Peggy Hookham who we better know as Margot Fonteyn. Margot Fonteyn became the next leading ballerina after Alicia Markova.
During World War II the ballet company had to cope with air raids, blackouts and loss of their men, including Aston to the draft, but they continued to perform throughout the war. The company then moved to the newly reopened Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 1946 and opened with The Sleeping Beauty. This production with Fonteyn as Aurora was a hit in New York in 1949.
With Margot Fonteyn as his muse,Wholesale Carrera sunglasses, Frederick Ashton produced ballets that celebrated the English style. Ashton's first full length original work was made on Moira Shearer with Red Shoes, as Margot had an injury. Ashton himself was the funniest ugly sister in Cinderella. Ondine was another hit that showed off Fonteyn's playful qualities as a water sprite.
Ashton took over The Royal Ballet from de Valois in 1963 for seven years. Directors after that included Kenneth MacMillan and Anthony Dowell. Today the Royal Ballet is directed by Monica Mason who as one of its former ballerina's.
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