Ninette de Valois
Ninette de Valois
Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBEwas an Anglo-Irish dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. She began life in Ireland as Edris Stannus. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing the Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and still one of the leading ballet companies in the world. She also established the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet School. She is widely regarded as one of...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth6 June 1898
CountryIreland
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.