Allegra Kent [own] parents. She borrowed a neighbor's working papers and took a job at twelve. By fourteen, she was teaching ballroom dancing at night in someone's private home, mostly to Japanese men". Born in Santa Monica, Kent studied with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci before joining the School of American Ballet. She discovered music and dance at the age of 7 and enjoyed both, but she was 11 before she took her first ballet lesson. She had completely flat feet as a little girl and consulted a doctor, who prescribed wedges in her shoes to give her arches. She then began
Allegra McEvedy award. In August 2006 she formed a civil partnership with Susi Smither. The couple dissolved their civil partnership in 2012. Allegra McEvedy has been a Patron of The Fairtrade Foundation since 2012. Allegra McEvedy Allegra Sarah Bazzett McEvedy MBE (born November 1970) is an English chef, broadcaster and writer. McEvedy was born and raised in Hammersmith. Her father Colin McEvedy was a consultant psychiatrist, historian and writer; her mother was a writer. She was privately educated at St Paul's Girls' School, attending the school at the same time as Daisy Garnett, later food columnist of "The Observer". McEvedy's mother died