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-Louise de Beauvoir Marie-Louise de Beauvoir Marie-Louise de Beauvoir née "Cousin" (17 August 1776, Pas-de-Calais-1855), was a Belgian pioneer educator. She was the founder of the first secular school for girls in Belgium, the «Maison d’éducation de demoiselles» in Liége, which was to be regarded as the perhaps most fashionable girls school in the country, and was its manager in 1816-1852. One of her students was the pioneer educator Léonie de Waha, who founded a college for girls, "l'école supérieure de demoiselles" (1868, from 1878 known as "lycée Léonie de Waha"). She was married to the French politician Louis-Etienne Beffroy de Beauvoir, and