The Joan Lawson Collections 1822-1980

Sokolova, Lydia, 1896-1974

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Lydia Sokolova (1896-1974) was born in Wanstead, as Hilda Tansley Munnings on 4 March 1896. She trained at the Stedman's Academy in London and with Anna Pavlova, Michael Mordkin and Pavlova’s great character dancer and pedagogue, Aleksander Shireyev. Later she studied with Enrico Cecchetti and Nicolas Legat. After touring in the USA with the All-Star Imperial Russian Ballet (1911-12) she danced in London and Europe with Theodore Kosloff’s Imperial Russian Ballet. In 1913 she joined ...

Moscow International Dance Competition

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Lawson, Joan., 1907-2002

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Joan Lawson (1907 - 2002) was a British dancer, teacher and writer. She trained with Margaret Morris and Serafina Astafieva, later studying in Moscow and Leningrad (Lawson was fluent in Russian and French). She danced in Carl Rosa’s Opera Company, in revues, and with the Nemchinova-Dolin Ballet. Lawson was a teacher at The Royal Ballet School, 1963/4 - 1971, specialising in the classical training of younger dancers, in mime and folk dance, and in the history of ballet. She regularly contributed ...

New Soviet Ballet Company

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British ballet organization

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Speaight, George.

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This collection of Punch and Judy prints, drawing, books and associated ephemera and research notes, was made by George Victor Speaight (1914-2005), one of the most distinguished historians of popular entertainment in Great Britain, a scrupulous researcher, superb writer, and avid collector whose main areas of interest were juvenile drama, circus, and puppetry. Four of his books are major works in the subjects of Punch and Judy, a History (1970), The History of the English Puppet Th...

London Ballet Circle

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Fedorovitch, Sophie

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Sadler's Wells Ballet Choreographic Group

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Leningrad Opera and Ballet Company

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Sadler's Wells Ballet

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