Marie Rambert
Dame Marie Rambert DBE (born February 20, 1888 in Warsaw , † June 12, 1982 in London ) was a Polish-British dancer and ballet teacher . For her cultural merits she was awarded the Order of the British Empire (DBE honorary) as well as membership in the French Legion of Honor.
Life
Marie Rambert was born as Cywia Ramberg into a middle-class Jewish family in Warsaw, which at that time belonged to the Russian Congress Poland . Many members of her family changed their names over the years: the family name of her father, a bookseller and publisher, was later called Rambam, while one of his brothers called himself Rambert . Her first name was Miriam Ramberg, but finally Marie Rambert. A defining experience in Warsaw was a performance by the legendary dancer Isadora Duncan .
In 1905 she moved to Paris , where she was supposed to study medicine, but took lessons in classical ballet . In 1910 she was discovered in the rhythm school of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze by Sergei Djagilew , who engaged her for the Ballets Russes , where she worked with Vaslav Nijinsky on the choreography of Igor Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps . In 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I , she moved to London , where she studied with Enrico Cecchetti .
In 1926 she founded her own ballet company in London , which initially appeared under the name Ballet Club, later Ballet Rambert and finally Rambert Dance Company, mainly in Sadler's Wells . With Frederick Ashton she realized A Tragedy of Fashion, or the Scarlet Scissors in 1926 . Some of her numerous ballet students later became famous dancers themselves, such as Antony Tudor , Agnes de Mille and Hans von Kusserow .
In 1959, her husband Ashley Dukes, an English writer and theater critic, to whom she had been married since 1918, died.
literature
Marie Rambert: Quicksilver: Autobiography . London, St. Martin's Press, 1972. ISBN 0-333-08942-1
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rambert, Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-British dancer and ballet teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1982 |
| Place of death | London |