Ninette De Valois

Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. She danced professionally with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing the Royal Ballet.

Quotes

• Yet all these disturbances are referred to by that hideous word "Glamour"
  • Invitation to Ballet, John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1937, p. 100
  • On personal tributes to individuals often "hurled down from the Gods".