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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.

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

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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