Moira Shearer, The Red Shoes 1948

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will attend Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 20th anniversary gala tomorrow night celebrating two decades in Birmingham for the company which was once Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet. The Prince of Wales is President of BRB and the Duchess is Patron of Elmhurst School of Dance, now Birmingham-based and associated with BRB. The move out of the capital made in 1990 by then director Peter Wright was seen as high-risk, but it was backed by Dame Ninette de…

Moira Shearer, Lady Kennedy, was an internationally renowned British ballet dancer and actress. Born: January 17, 1926, Dunfermline, United Kingdom Died: January 31, 2006, Oxford, United Kingdom

“Moira Shearer as Sally Bowles in "I Am a Camera", 1955.”