Mary Skeaping was a British choreographer and ballet dancer, born in 1902 in Woodford, who died in 1984.
Biography
Mary Emma Skeaping (15 December 1902 – 9 February 1984) was an English ballerina who is better known as a ballet teacher, director, choreographer, and producer. She served as director of the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm for nine years (1953–1962), and became an international authority on ballet from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
Contemporaries
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