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  Marie Rambert (1888 - 1982)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Marie Rambert was born on 20 February 1888 in Warsaw, Poland, a country then under Russian domination.
In 1914, at the outbreak of war, Rambert emigrated to England finding work as a teacher of the then fashionable eurhythmics to society children (Peter Scott, son of the Antarctic explorer, who later became a naturalist, was one of her pupils).
Marie Rambert is remembered as the self-styled ‘midwife of British ballet’ noted for discovering in others talent for dancing, for design and, most significantly for choreography.
www.rambert.org.uk /archive/people/detail_a.asp?art=1172   (216 words)

  
 Rambert Dance Company - Celebrating 75 years by Verinha Ottoni ©   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dame Marie was born in Poland and died in 1982.
Marie's most famous pupil was Fredrick Ashton (born 1904); the first ballet he choreographed was A Tragedy of Fashion.
Marie's contribution and dedication to her company was huge; she was a dance teacher.
www.verinhaottoni.com /diary/cultural/dance/054.html   (1457 words)

  
 Ballet-Dance Magazine - Rambert Dance Company - 'Linear Remains,' 'Five Brahms Waltzes,' 'Reflection,' 'A Tragedy of ...
Called a choreographer’s company, Rambert is a seventy-eight year old repertory company with an incredibly long list of works that span the fluctuations of several generations of dance in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
It is said Marie Rambert, the founder of Rambert, was inspired to dance once seeing the revolutionary modern dancer Isadora Duncan perform in 1904.
Rambert’s presentation at Sadler’s Wells on May 25, 2004 celebrates the narrative ballet and the personalities of past extraordinary artists, and with a selection from two twenty first century choreographers, illustrates the current trend for more aggressive investigations into the unfathomable possibilities of pure movement.
www.ballet-dance.com /200406/articles/rambert20040525.html   (1187 words)

  
 History of the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance
Marie Rambert began teaching in London in 1919.
Rambert famously said her School was not to be, "a sausage factory".
The creation of the present incarnation of Rambert School was aided by the fact that by the late 1970s Ballet Rambert found it had grown away from what had been its School in a number of senses.
www.rambertschool.org.uk /history.html   (431 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Rambert,
Rambert, Dame Marie 1888-1982, a founder of the English ballet, b.
RAMBERT'S NICE MOVE; The leading touring dance company is heading for a new home.
Arts: Revival of the fittest; The choreographer Christopher Bruce never wanted to run a dance company, but he took over Rambert in 1994 and led it from near-extinction to its current success.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Rambert,   (453 words)

  
 Dame Marie Rambert: A Remarkable Native of Poland
In 1918, Rambert became a British citizen and married the playwright, Ashley Dukes.
Marie Rambert is an important part of Polish history because her contribution to the art of ballet is enormous.
“Marie Rambert is remembered as the self-styled ‘midwife of British ballet’ noted for her artistic instinct and unerring sense of theatre that enabled her to discover and encourage generations of choreographers, dancers, designers and composers” (Marie).
www.personal.psu.edu /students/e/u/euk118/Art002/assign6.html   (763 words)

  
 Dancing Times Magazine - Articles
Marie Rambert’s visit as a dancer to the Maddermarket was one that I failed to discover when trying to document her performing career in Britain.
In Marie Rambert’s recital the emphasis was not unexpectedly on character dance and the programme again included a suite of Russian dances.
The final visit by Rambert dancers, on Monday December 3, 1934, was presented by the quartet of Maude Lloyd, Elisabeth Schooling, Hugh Laing and Antony Tudor, whose programme again drew on Rambert’s Classical/Ballets Russes repertoire.
www.dancing-times.co.uk /1-articles/feature3.html   (2148 words)

  
 Ballet-Dance Magazine - Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isodora Duncan, Rambert Dance Company, Jane Pritchard, ...
When Ashton decided to extend the work he asked Marie Rambert for her memories of the artist who had inspired her to dance.
Interestingly, Rambert describes her as playing on a beach revealing how she released the imagination of the viewer as she was literally on a bare stage draped with blue curtains.
Five Brahms Waltzes returns to Rambert’s repertoire (taught to the new generation of dancers by Lynn Seymour) to mark the centenary of the birth of Frederick Ashton, Rambert Dance Company’s Founder Choreographer.
www.ballet-dance.com /200406/articles/brahmswaltzesfeature20040600.html   (788 words)

  
 Christopher Bruce, Rambert Dance Company
He continues to have great success as a choreographer and is known for his skill in grafting folk dance steps into balletic movement vocabulary and his use of social themes as a source of inspiration for dance works.
For the past two years, Amnesty International UK and Rambert have worked together on publicity and the preparation of schools material for Swansong, an outstanding piece of dance-drama based on the interrogation of a prisoner by two guards.
Rambert Dance Company is performing Ghost Dances as part of a mixed programme in the second half of 1999 and in further venues in 2000 in the UK and Continental Europe.
www.criticaldance.com /interviews/1999/cbruce990700.html   (849 words)

  
 Rambert, Dame Marie - MSN Encarta
Marie Rambert (1888-1982), Polish-British dancer and teacher, who exerted a lasting effect on British ballet.
Born Miriam Rambach in Warsaw, she went to Paris to study medicine.
Her company, the Ballet Rambert, now called the Rambert Dance Company, promoted the work of many British choreographers and stage designers.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761554181   (142 words)

  
 Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, Homepage
Marie Rambert founded the Rambert School in 1920.
Continuing this tradition, Rambert School remains one of the world's premier professional dance schools both in terms of training and choreographic invention.
Rambert School is an affiliate of the Conservatoire of Dance and Drama.
www.rambertschool.org.uk   (272 words)

  
 londondance.com : Rambert Dance Company
Committed to the pursuit of excellence, the Company aspires to both entertain and challenge through a programme that aims to bridge the perceived gap between classical ballet and contemporary dance, and which varies from the new and experimental to classics from the past, from the minimal in style to spectacular dance theatre.
Today Rambert has a thriving education and outreach programme which provides opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to further their understanding and appreciation of contemporary dance.
Created by Mikaela Polley for the Rambert Workshop Season in January 2005 and is performed to a score of the same title by Patrick Nunn.
www.londondance.com /content/81/rambert_dance_company   (483 words)

  
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Created in 1976, to mark Rambert’s 50th anniversary, it is a moving evocation of Isadora Duncan, one of the pioneers of the 20th century modern dance movement.
Formerly Ballet Rambert, the Company was formed in 1926 by the visionary Polish dance teacher, DAME MARIE RAMBERT, changing its name to Rambert Dance Company in 1987 to reflect a long-held commitment to contemporary choreography.
At the end of 2002, Bruce retired as Rambert’s Artistic Director and was succeeded by MARK BALDWIN, a former Rambert dancer and choreographer.
www.sadlerswells.com /downloads/press/Rambert_pr04.doc   (787 words)

  
 The Buzz
Marie Rambert and Frederick Ashton of Ballet Rambert in Ashton's "A Tragedy of Fashion." Yvonde photo courtesy Rambert Dance Company.
Said Ashton of Rambert founder Marie Rambert (that's them in the archival photo accompanying this column), "Marie Rambert was, in every respect of her nature, a truly remarkable woman.
Rambert Dance Company's Melanie Teall in Frederick Ashton's "Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan." Anthony Crickmay photo courtesy Rambert Dance Company.
www.danceinsider.com /chevalier/c031904.html   (1055 words)

  
 screenonline: Marie Rambert (1960)
Huw Wheldon talks to Marie Rambert about her legendary dance company and her work with existing and future ballet legends, including many of her own discoveries.
asks Rambert to pick a future star from her (then) present company, something of a gamble as far as posterity is concerned.
Since she had originally been rejected by them for being too short, her career is itself a testament to Rambert's far-sightedness.
www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/1033818/index.html   (295 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | New home for London dance company
Rambert artistic director Mark Baldwin called it an "exciting moment" in the company's history.
He welcomed the promise of "a real purpose-built home for the company", calling it "a laboratory to experiment in, the means to reach into the community we serve".
Rambert is Britain's oldest dance company, established in 1926 by Marie Rambert, five years before the Royal Ballet came into existence.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4247978.stm   (347 words)

  
 - January Rambert Workshop Season at the Place
Rambert Dance Company is delighted to announce the return of the Rambert Workshop Season in 2005, which will be held in the Robin Howard Dance Theatre at The Place on 25 and 26 January.
Its founder, Marie Rambert, was famed for her ability to spot and develop new talent, including such dance luminaries as Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor and Christopher Bruce among others.
Rambert Dance Company is Britain’s oldest dance company, founded in 1926 and transformed into a contemporary dance company in 1968.
www.ballet.co.uk /dcforum/news/2600.html   (1231 words)

  
 Rambert - John Percival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rambert Dance Company will celebrate its 80th anniversary next year; a little prematurely, I think, since June 1926 actually saw not a new company but only the premiere of Frederick Ashton’s first apprentice work, made while he was still a student, given as a number in a revue and starring Marie Rambert and Ashton.
The present company makes much of continuing Rambert’s example of discovering and fostering choreographic talent, but there are one or two differences.
His “Swamp” as a creation for Rambert Dance dates from 1986, and even then it was partly derived from a smaller piece “Do You Me? I Did” given on the initial programme of his first company two years earlier (which led Nureyev to invite him to create for the Paris Opera company).
www.danceviewtimes.com /2005/Autumn/08/rambert.html   (732 words)

  
 Rambert Dance Company - Sadler's Wells - November 2006
Watch the e-trailer, forward it to a friend you think might be interested in seeing Rambert and you could win a meal for two worth £100 at The Fish Shop.
From the day in 1926 when the visionary dance teacher Marie Rambert presented a short ballet by her pupil Frederick Ashton, Rambert has continued to be the most influential force in the development of British dance.
Rambert's Family Matinee gives you and your family the perfect opportunity to experience modern dance at its very best.
www.sadlerswells.com /whats_on/2006_2007/rambert.asp   (604 words)

  
 CriticalDance.com, Feature, Rambert Dance Company, Mark Baldwin, vision
To follow her, and all of the other illustrious artistic directors of Rambert, is an enormous responsibility, but one that I find inspiring.
It is my desire that Rambert Dance Company should be a leading force in shaping British modern dance and that it should direct from the front, rather than just pull in that which appears to be fashionable.
The second work to be created for Rambert by Javier De Frutos and is performed to music and songs by the ever-popular composer and lyricist Cole Porter, including a rare score Porter wrote in 1923.
www.criticaldance.com /features/2003/MarkBaldwinVision20030600.html   (549 words)

  
 PeoplePlay UK - Ballet Rambert
In the early 1930s Marie Rambert established the Ballet Club at the Mercury Theatre in London’s Notting Hill.
The stage was tiny and because of their small scale the ballets became known as ‘chamber ballets’.
Marie Rambert had a flair for developing the work of choreographers, including Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Andrée Howard and Walter Gore.
www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /guided_tours/dance_tour/ballet/establishment_rambert.php   (225 words)

  
 Rambert Dance Company
British modern-dance company, founded as the Ballet Rambert by Marie Rambert in 1926.
In 1966 she handed the direction over to her protégé Norman Morrice, who began the process of transforming the company into one more focused on new creations and modern work.
The company was relaunched on an expanded scale in 1994 under the direction of Christopher Bruce, working from a more ‘classical’ contemporary base.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0075175.html   (279 words)

  
 Dame Marie Rambert - Picture - MSN Encarta
Dame Marie Rambert - Picture - MSN Encarta
Polish-British dancer Dame Marie Rambert founded a dance school in London, England, in 1920.
She trained a number of important figures in British ballet and formed a company, Ballet Rambert.
encarta.msn.com /media_461523300/Dame_Marie_Rambert.html   (38 words)

  
 Rambert Dance Company. - Coliseum, London, England - dance reviews Dance Magazine - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bruce paid tribute to Marie Rambert the company's founder, with a new piece, Quicksilver, which was her nickname as a mercurial child in Poland.
Several LCDT dancers have now joined Rambert, so Bruce was acknowledging their Graham-based lineage in the Cohan piece, just as he acknowledged his own debt to Tudor with Dark Elegies.
Performing that ballet had inspired him as a young Rambert dancer in the 1960s, when he was the last choreographer to be nurtured by Rambert herself.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n10_v70/ai_18733476   (695 words)

  
 Dame Marie Rambert (Dame Marie Dukes) (1888-1982), Founder and director of Ballet Rambert; lecturer and teacher
Dame Marie Rambert (Dame Marie Dukes) (1888-1982), Founder and director of Ballet Rambert; lecturer and teacher
In 1920 Rambert opened a school and produced her pupil Frederick Ashton's first ballet in 1926.
Rambert co-founded the influential Comargo Club with Ninette de Valois in 1930, the year she formed the first permanent English ballet company, which became the Ballet Rambert.
www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp03702   (204 words)

  
 Andros On Ballet
Marie Rambert (Cyvia Rambam, then Miriam Ramberg, 1888-1982), a Polish dancer was working with Emile Jacques-Dalcroze when Diaghilev hired her in 1913 to help the dancers with Igor Stravinsky's complicated rhythms in Le Sacre du Printemps.
She also studied with Enrico Cecchetti, and danced in the corps de ballet.
Rambert opened a London ballet school in 1920.
michaelminn.net /andros/index.php?rambert_marie   (185 words)

  
 Rambert, Dame Marie - HighBeam Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rambert, Dame Marie - HighBeam Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)
RAMBERT, DAME MARIE [Rambert, Dame Marie] 1888-1982, a founder of the English ballet, b.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Rambert, Dame Marie" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /doc/1E1-Rambert.html   (273 words)

  
 Rambert Dance Company
to see a photograph of Rambert and Ashton in the work.)The reworking by choreographer Ian Spink is a close collaboration with designers Antony McDonald, long-time collaborator of Spink, and Juliette Blondelle.
It captures the spirit of the 1920s with frivolous costumes and eccentric stage sets consisting of a huge jacket in the process of being tailored and a gigantic pair of scissors.
It's a real piece of dance history, even when you see it performed on a young Rambert dancer (Amy Hollingsworth) with her (different) angular and highly technically trained body.
www.danceinsider.com /f2004/f0528_2.html   (631 words)

  
 Rambert Dance Company - John Percival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And what a repertoire: already during the 1930s Rambert presented the earliest creations of Britain’s two greatest choreographers, Frederick Ashton and Antony Tudor, plus others by (inter alia) Ninette de Valois and Rambert discoveries Walter Gore, Andrée Howard, Frank Staff—all of them deserving more remembrance than they get nowadays.
In a programme note, Baldwin claims that movement is an ideal medium in which to explore abstract notions.
Rambert’s music director Paul Hoskins writes that he and Baldwin looked for music “that had some relevance to the Einstein stimulus”, and they apparently picked on the composer Franz Lehár because he was around in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century.
www.danceviewtimes.com /2005/Spring/08/rambert.htm   (633 words)

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