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Ballet Rambert is the UK’s oldest dance company and every year its troupe tour the UK.
It is currently touring its Ghost Dances and Nina Simone-inspired Goat pieces in London, Southampton, Salford, Norwich, Edinburgh, Bath and Bradford.
The company has an interesting history. It was founded in 1926 by Polish-born Dame Marie ‘Mini’ Rambert and became a household name during the early days of TV for its performances on the BBC.
It has also performed in many of the UK’s best venues including recently London’s Sadler’s Wells, Theatre Royal in Brighton and Salford’s The Lowry.
The Rambert Dance Company – as it used to be known – has worked with some of the world’s greatest dancers including Vaslav Nijinski and more recently Ashley Page and is currently headquartered at the back of the National Theatre.
The studio where Marie Rambert founded the fledgling dance company during the 1920s and where she used to teach, is now for sale.
It’s a Georgian Grade II listed maisonette and is where she opened her fledgling school of dance in Bedford Gardens, Kensington in 1926.
Her dancers went on to perform regularly at the Mercury Theatre in nearby Notting Hill, before becoming a fully fledged dance company during the 1930s.
Ballet Rambert’s former home is now the vast combined open-plan lounge, dining room and kitchen of the maisonette, which also has three double bedrooms and a study. It’s for sale with Marsh & Parsons Kensington (0207368 4450) for £4.9m.