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Rambert Dance Company
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(previously Ballet Rambert) Influential company which emerged from the ballet school founded in London in 1920 by Marie *Rambert. In 1926 she persuaded one of her students, Frederick *Ashton, to choreograph a new work, A Tragedy of Fashion, which virtually launched British ballet. By 1931 regular Sunday matinées were being given under the name of the Ballet Club, which in 1934 became Ballet Rambert; the location was the tiny Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill, an adapted school building of 1851 which remained the company's home until the 1960s. Antony *Tudor was another of the early choreographers.
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Rambert remained director until 1966. She was succeeded by Norman Morrice, who gave the company a new image by concentrating exclusively on modern dance. The name was changed to the Rambert Dance Company in 1987, after Richard Alston became director – introducing an emphasis on the technique of the American dancer Merce Cunningham. He was followed in 1994 by Christopher Bruce.
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