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• Bryony Brind obituary

  11-12-2015 18:24
  
  Unconventional ballet dancer and a favourite of choreographers trying out new worksWhen she was still a pupil at the Royal Ballet school, it was clear that Bryony Brind, who has died from a heart attack aged 55, had the potential to reach the heights of her chosen profession. So it was no great surprise when she was plucked from the corps de ballet in 1981, aged 20 and in only her third season with the Royal Ballet, to dance the lead in Swan Lake.Her successful debut in the role was hailed as a
  
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• Joan Ravenscroft obituary

  11-12-2015 17:08
  
  Our aunt, Joan Ravenscroft, who has died aged 97, devoted her early life to ballet, dancing with various prominent companies in the 1930s before deciding to end her career in order to raise a family.Born in Coulsdon, Surrey, to Sidney Kent, a businessman, and Emily (nee Pullen), Joan went to St Martin’s high school in central London before training at the Cone School of Dancing in the capital. She first performed in public, aged 12, as a costermonger in a cabaret at the Dickens and Jones t
  
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• Review: 'World Ballet Stars' Puts a Spotlight on Bucharest From a Global Cast - New York Times

  11-12-2015 00:33
  New York Times
  Review: 'World Ballet Stars' Puts a Spotlight on Bucharest From a Global Cast
  New York Times
  At the end of the World Ballet Stars gala-style event on Wednesday at the Rose Theater, the ballerina Alina Cojocaru, who had danced in four of the 15 items on the program, made a speech that epitomized the endearing spell she casts. She scarcely spoke ...
  

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