Marie Rambert
(1888-1982), Founder and director of Ballet Rambert, lecturer and teacherDame Marie Rambert (Dame Marie Dukes)
Sitter in 11 portraits
Born Cyvia Rambam in Warsaw, she came to the attention of Diaghilev in 1913. She joined the Ballets Russes as a teacher and became Nijinsky's assistant choreographing L'Après-midi d'un faune and Le Sacre du printemps. She came to London in 1917, married and became a British citizen. In 1920 she opened a school and producing pupil Frederick Ashton's first ballet in 1926. She co-founded the Comargo Club with Ninette de Valois in 1930, also forming the first permanent English ballet company, the Ballet Rambert. Over the next fifty years as the 'mother' of English ballet Rambert introduced new performers, choreographers and designers and built up a vigorous native school.
by Juliet Pannett
chalk, 1960s?
NPG 6039
by Astrid Zydower
bronze bust, 1970
On display in the Weston Wing Café at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4866
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 18 February 1976
NPG P1910
by Derek Allen
bromide print, 1953
NPG x32797
by Tom Blau, for Camera Press: London: UK
vintage print, 1955
NPG x194311
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 1 February 1962
NPG x167145
by J.S. Lewinski
bromide print on card mount, 1967
NPG x13742
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