Ballet Dancer

Rachel Cameron

Australian ballet dancer and teacher

Born 1924Died 2011Australia
Rachel Cameron
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Rachel Cameron was an Australian ballet dancer, born in 1924, who died in 2011.

Biography

Rachel Cameron (27 March 1924—6 March 2011) was an Australian ballet dancer and teacher. She was one of the leading dancers in early Australian ballet in the 1940s, performing with the Borovansky and Kirsova ballet companies, and was one of the first ballet dancers in Australia to reach the rank of principal. After emigrating to Great Britain she was an inspirational educator of ballet teachers at the Royal Academy of Dance in London for over forty years. In 2010, she received the Royal Academy of Dance's prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award in recognition of her outstanding services to ballet.

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Contemporaries

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