Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels
Ballet teacher and director
About Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels
Lived 1916 – 1981 (aged 64). Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels was a New Zealand ballet dancer and ballet director.
Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels (1 August 1916 – 27 June 1981) was a New Zealand ballet teacher and director.
Early years She was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 1 August 1916, the third of four children of Winifred Louise Smart and her husband, Frederick William Daniels, a civil servant. She was educated at Kelburn Normal School and Wellington Girls' College. At the age of 15, she opened her first studio at King's Chambers, at the corner of Willeston and Willis Streets.
Later years In 1965, she took up a Teacher's Award from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand to observe ballet teaching methods in the United Kingdom and Europe, including Russia, where she studied the Bolshoi Ballet.
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Who was Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels?
ballet teacher and director (1916-1981)
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Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels was born on 1 August 1916.
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Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels died on 27 June 1981.
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Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels was a ballet dancer and ballet director.
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