Marie Rambert 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, another of his brothers went to Rambert,
Marie-Agnès Gillot headquarters in 2015. Marie-Agnès Gillot Marie-Agnès Gillot born in 1975 in Caen is a French ballet dancer and choreographer with the Paris Opera Ballet. The daughter of an accountant and a physical therapist, until starting at the Paris Opera Ballet School at age nine, she lived in Caen. "She was only 5 when she took her first dance lesson. Despite having double<nowiki> </nowiki> scoliosis, whose treatment would imprison her in a cumbersome back brace for years, she kept dancing". She entered the company at age 15. In 1994, she was promoted to the rank of “sujet,” or soloist. “I had