Ballet Rambert
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The Ballet Rambert, now Rambert Dance Company, is a dance company founded in 1926 by Dame Marie Rambert at the Mercury Theatre in London, later moving to a base in Chiswick, West London.
Initially founded as a touring ballet company, it was relaunched during the mid-1960s in the contemporary dance field and is now one of Britain's leading companies, employing a larger permanent group of dancers than any other contemporary dance company in the UK.
Famous former members of the Company have included Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Diana Gould, Maude Lloyd, Sally Gilmour, Beryl Goldwyn, Lucette Aldous, Christopher Bruce, and Norman Morris.
The current Artistic Director is Mark Baldwin (a former dancer with the company), Executive Director is Sue Wyatt.
In 2005 the Institute of Physics commissioned the Rambert Dance Company to produce a dance commemorating the centenary of Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific ideas of 1905. The piece, choreographed by Mark Baldwin, was called Constant Speed. One of the dancers, Ana Lujan-Sanchez, was named Outstanding Female Artist (Modern) at the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards in 2003.
[edit] Bibliography
- Marie Rambert (1972). Quicksilver: Autobiography. London: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-333-08942-1.
- Clement Crisp (1981). Ballet Rambert: 50 Years and on. London: Ballet Rambert, 111. ISBN 0-9505478-1-6.
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