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3 unusual facts about Mari Bicknell


Mari Bicknell

George ("Dadie") Rylands saw this production and suggested that she staged her ballets at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

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In 1950 Britten's Let's Make an Opera inspired her to create Let's Make a Ballet: Dream Street her most talented students.

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Born Mari Scott Henderson in Kensington, London, Bicknell began her career studying with Vera Trefilova in Paris, and later with Tamara Karsavina.



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