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.
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[edit]- 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".
