Daphne Dale

Daphne Dale (18 July 1931 – 9 July 1982) was a British ballet dancer.

Daphne Dale
Born	18 July 1931  Nairobi
Died	9 July 1982  (aged 50) New Orleans
Occupation	Actor, ballet dancer
Spouse(s)	Nicholas Polajenko

Daphne Dale was born on 18 July 1931 in Nairobi, Kenya. Initially training as a dancer in Kenya, she moved to London to study under Grace Cone and Olive Ripman.^[1]

Dale and a number of other dancers from the Cone-Ripman school joined the newly formed Festival Ballet, founded by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin. While the company was touring the United States, Dale married another Festival Ballet dancer, Nicholas Polajenko, in Los Angeles.^[2] Dale was with the Festival Ballet from 1951 to 1955; she later joined the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas until its disbanding in 1961. She was a member of and later a teacher at the Geneva Opera Ballet.^[3] She had a role in the "Ring around the Rosy" segment of the Gene Kelly film Invitation to the Dance (1956).^[1]

Daphne Dale died on 9 July 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana.^[1]

References

1. Commire, Anne, ed. (2007). Dictionary of women worldwide: 25,000 women through the ages. Yorkin publications. Detroit: Gale. ISBN 978-0-7876-7585-1.
2. Braunsweg, Julian (1977). Ballet scandals. Internet Archive. London : Allen and Unwin. pp. 111, 162. ISBN 978-0-04-782002-1.
3. Koegler, Horst (1977). The Concise Oxford dictionary of ballet. Internet Archive. London; New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-311314-5.