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Article: A mover and a shaker
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- April 21, 2008
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A mover and a shaker Veronica Harwell Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes Judith Mackrell Weidenfeld & Nicolson,496pp, £25
Not long after Lydia Lopokova danced at Covent Garden for the final time at the age of 41, her worst-decayed teeth were extracted and she was fitted with a denture. Everything you need to know about Lopokova is in her response to this potential humiliation: she so appreciated the denture's design that she took it out to show Frederick Ashton, last of her choreographers; then she did the same with Sam Courtauld, the textile millionaire who once desired her as his mistress. He whipped out his own choppers to compare.
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