Eve Annabel Farjeon (19 March 1919 – 8 February 2004) was a British ballerina and author. She was born on 19 March 1919, in

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, Berkshire, the daughter of the critic Herbert Farjeon and the artist Joan Farjeon. She began learning ballet aged eleven, made her professional debut at the age of 14 (in the roles of Snowflake and Biscuit in the original (1934)

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London production of '' Casse Noisette''), and went on to dance with the Vic-Wells, later Sadler's Wells Ballet in the 1930s, where she worked with choreographers

Ninette de Valois Dame Ninette de Valois (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russ ...

and

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Choreographers: Dancing for de Valois and Ashton
, in ''The Routledge Dance Studies Reader'' (2nd. ed., 2010) Farjeon was also a critic, sometimes writing under the name Sarah Jefferson.

Created roles

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'', a Pawn (

, 1937) *'' The Wise Virgins'', the Mother (

, 1940)

List of selected publications

References

1919 births 2004 deaths English ballerinas English critics 20th-century British Jews Annabel 20th-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers {{dance-bio-stub