Marie Rambert within the Cloister Walk in section B. Marie Rambert Dame Marie Rambert, Mrs Dukes DBE (20 February 188812 June 1982) was a Polish-born dancer and pedagogue who exerted great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher. Born to a liberal Jewish family in Warsaw, Congress Poland, she was originally named Cyvia (Cesia) Rambam. Her father and two of his brothers later changed their last names to make them seem only children in order to escape military service in the Imperial Russian Army; and so, while one brother retained the name Rambam, her father changed his to Ramberg,
Canada's National Ballet School became the school's first Artistic Director. The first enrolment of full-time students included 27 females, and 202 students enrolled for part-time study, of which nine were boys. Having studied the Cecchetti method under Dame Marie Rambert and Antony Tudor, Oliphant chose the method as the foundation for the School's training programme. The Cecchetti method taught at the school was the original syllabus devised by Enrico Cecchetti in collaboration with the dance writer and historian Cyril Beaumont; this method continues to be used around the world by the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing for training and assessing dancers. Students of