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Article: Call Her `Madame'.(Ninette de Valois)(Obituary)
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- Dance Magazine
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- June 1, 2001
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Not many lives literally span over a century, but Dame Ninette de Valois, O.M., C.H., a woman everyone called "Madame" and the founder of Britain's Royal Ballet, was born in the nineteenth century and died in the twenty-first. And that was surely the least remarkable thing about her. She was spiritually and professionally a child of Serge Diaghilev, but also a child of W.B. Yeats, and she was effectively a Margaret Thatcher before anyone had ever heard of Margaret Thatcher. De Valois was one of the tiny handful of people who have exerted a crucial influence on twentieth-century dance.
That impact was not made as a dancer, although de Valois danced with some ...
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Article: Ninette de Valois
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
March 9, 2001 ;
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...Ninette de Valois Royal Ballet founder Friday, March 9 ... dance and founder of the Royal Ballet, died Thursday. De Valois, 102, established ballet ... later just called the Royal Ballet. De Valois stepped down as director ...
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