Daphne Dale Explained

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Daphne Dale (July 18, 1931 – July 9, 1982) was a British ballet dancer.

Daphne Dale was born on July 18, 1931 in Nairobi, Kenya. Initially training as a dancer in Kenya, she moved to London to study under Grace Cone and Olive Ripman.^[1]

Dale and a number of other dancers from the Cone-Ripman school joined the newly formed Festival Ballet, founded by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin. While the company was touring the United States, Dale married another Festival Ballet dancer, Nicholas Polajenko, in Los Angeles.^[2] Dale was with the Festival Ballet from 1951 to 1955; she later joined the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas until its disbanding in 1961. She was a member of and later a teacher at the Geneva Opera Ballet.^[3] She had a role in the "Ring around the Rosy" segment of the Gene Kelly film Invitation to the Dance (1956).

Daphne Dale died on 9 July 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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