Marie Rambert

Marie Rambert DBE ( born February 20, 1888 in Warsaw, † June 12, 1982 in London) was a Polish-British dancer and ballet teacher. For their cultural achievements, she was awarded among others with both the Order of the British Empire (DBE honorary ) and with membership in the French Legion of Honour.

Life

Marie Rambert was born Cywia Ramberg in a middle class Jewish family in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Congress Poland. Many members of her family changed over time their names: the name of her father, a bookseller and publisher, was later Rambam, while one of his brothers called Rambert. They first called themselves Miriam Ramberg, but eventually Marie Rambert. A formative experience in Warsaw was a performance by the legendary dancer Isadora Duncan for them.

1905 she moved to Paris, where she was studying medicine, but took in classical ballet lessons. 1910, she was in the rhythm of school by Émile Jaques -Dalcroze discovered by Sergei Diaghilev, which they undertook for the Ballets Russes, where she worked on the choreography by Igor Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps Vaslav Nijinsky with. 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, she moved to London where she studied under Enrico Cecchetti.

In 1926 she founded her own ballet company in London, which later became Ballet Rambert Rambert Dance Company and finally occurred mainly under the name Ballet Club, in Sadler 's Wells. With Frederick Ashton she realized 1926 A Tragedy of Fashion, or the Scarlet Scissors. Some of her many ballet students were later even famous dancers such as Antony Tudor, Agnes de Mille and Hans von Kusserow.

Died in 1959 her husband Ashley Dukes, an English writer and theater critic, with whom she had been married since 1918.