Rambert Dance Company Rambert Dance Company Rambert, (known as Rambert Dance Company before 2014) is a leading British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingdom, and today, as a contemporary dance company, continues to be one of the world's most renowned dance companies. It has previously been known as the Ballet Club, and the Ballet Rambert. Dame Marie Rambert (1888–1982), founder of Rambert Dance Company, was born in Warsaw, Poland where she was inspired to become a dancer after
Marie al-Khazen Marie al-Khazen Marie al-Khazen (1899–1983) was a Lebanese photographer. The photographs she created, of rural life in 1920s Lebanon, are considered to constitute a valuable and unique record of their time and place. Marie al-Khazen grew up in a mansion near Zgharta, in northern Lebanon. Her mother was Wardeh Torbey, and her grandmother was Sultana Daher. Marie al-Khazen was a "serious amateur" photographer with an Eastman Kodak camera. She had an interest in experimentation and the skills to set up and use her own darkroom. She sometimes posed her subjects and dressed them in particular clothing, such as in her