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Marie Rambert’s daughter, Angela, established Ballet Workshop, along with her husband, David Ellis in 1951. The aim of Ballet Workshop was to give space and time for new and experimental works to...

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Midsummer Watch was Peter Darrell’s first ballet, made for Ballet Workshop at the Mercury Theatre and the Festival of Britain. The story is of Zoe, Phoebe and the Shepherds in a charmingly...

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Peter Darrell, an original member of Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet, left the company in 1947 to dance in musicals whilst choreographing for Marie Rambert’s Ballet Workshop amongst other...

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