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By Ninette De Valois

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Writings by Ninette de Valois, founder and director of Britain's Royal Ballet for over 30 years. There is the memorandum she submitted to the Board of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, which, in 1956, gained the ballet its Royal Charter. She also describes, in a diary form, a visit to Russia, where she was taken round its ballet schools and companies, and there is a telling accont of how the Turkey National Ballet was, in fact, founded from Britain. In 1974 she was the first woman to receive the Erasmus Prize for a contribution of particular importance to Europe in the cultural or social sphere.
Product details
Number of Pages:
204
Release Date:
1977-01-17
Publication Date:
1977-01-17
Publisher:
W.H. Allen / Virgin Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0491015984
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