Born Moscow. Ballet dancer and choreographer. Principle choreographer of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes.
Appeared in films The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1952). Died in Cologne.
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David Wall, CBE
Ballet dancer. Partnered Margot Fonteyn. A Governor of the Royal Ballet.
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Cecil Sharp
Collector of English folk-songs and dances. Born Denmark Hill. Spent 1882 - 92 in Australia. Developed an interest in English folk-music in 1899 and began his prolific collection which later expand...
Person, Dance, Museums / Libraries, Music / songs, Australia
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Bolshoi Ballet
Dance company. A school for a Moscow orphanage was created in 1773, and its pupils were employed by Prince Pyotr Urusov and the English theatrical entrepreneur Michael Maddox, to form part of a new...
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Baroness Betty Boothroyd, O.M., P.C.
Betty Boothroyd was born on 8 October 2023 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, the daughter of Ben Archibald Boothroyd (1886-1948) and Mary Boothroyd née Butterfield (1901-1982). In the 1939 England and...
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Rudolf Nureyev
Ballet dancer. Born Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, while his mother was travelling to Vladivostok. In 1958, he joined the Kirov (later renamed as Marins...
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Ambassador Charles H. Price, II
Charles Harry Price II was born on 1 April 1931 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA. He was the second son of Charles Harry Price (1886-1942) and Virginia Ogden Price (1898-1953). His eld...
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War dead, WW1
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Golders Green Hippodrome
NW11, North End Road, El-Shaddai International Christian Centre
Hippodrome Theatre, Golders Green home of the BBC Concert Orchestra, 1969 - 2003. BBC Heritage Trail
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Charles Fort - silvery
WC1, Marchmont Street, 39
Fort and his wife Anna lived in the first floor flat, conveniently close to the British Museum for his researches.
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Rose Macaulay
W1, Hinde Street, 11
Sources give no. 20 as her address so we guess the street has been renumbered since then.
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