Moira Shearer
1926 – 2006
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There has been a great deal of speculation that a rivalry developed between Margot Fonteyn and Moira Shearer during the time that they both danced at the Sadler’s Wells Ballet, i.e. between 1942 and 1953. Fonteyn wrote in her autobiography that she once felt threatened by Shearer’s meteoric rise within the company. As well…
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Between May 19th, 1941, when Moira Shearer joined The International Ballet in Glasgow for its premiere performance and February 8th ,1942 when she left the company as it completed a week of performances in Sheffield, she probably danced at every performance if not in every ballet. I have records (programmes and newspaper accounts) for 181…
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Probably at some time in 1948, The Sadler’s Wells Ballet, under the auspices of The British Council, received an invitation to participate in the Music Festival to be held in Florence in May 1949. Ninette de Valois, the Sadler’s Wells director accepted the invitation and set about creating the programme. The company would…
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