Sonia Taverner

Sonia Taverner (18 May 1936 – 10 February 2018) was an English-born Canadian ballet dancer. She danced with the corps of the Sadler's Wells Ballet for 18 months and moved to Canada in 1956 and joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet from 1956 to 1966. Taverner moved on to join the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and performed with the company between 1966 and 1974, when she retired as the company's principal dancer. She taught at the Performing Arts faculty at Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton, Alberta from 1975 to 1980 and then ran her own dance school in Edmonton from 1980.