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...brief Act III pas de deux from "Sleeping Beauty," the true meaning of Sadler's Wells' fame crystalized. The undisputed pinnacle of the evening was Moira Shearer. In this, the only pure classical part of the program, her magnificent body control, intense yet delicate, was completely over-whelming...
...British Ballerina Moira (Red Shoes) Shearer, who after listening to a frantic chorus, asked Muggsy: "Tell me, do you find ballet dull...
Married. Moira Shearer, 23, red-haired ballerina of London's Sadler's Wells Ballet, star of the hit British movie The Red Shoes; and Ludovic Kennedy, 30, wartime Royal Navy lieutenant, onetime Oxford librarian; in the royal chapel of Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Court, Middlesex...
...critics going back for comparisons to such ballet immortals as Anna Pavlova, Olga Spessivtzeva and Tamara Karsavina, the sometime partner of the great Nijinsky. Just behind Fonteyn were two other fine dancers who could take her roles: tall, handsome Beryl Grey, 22, and flame-haired, 23-year-old Moira Shearer, dancing star of the British film The Red Shoes (which has had a spectacular run of 13 months on Broadway...
...could not dance again for three months, though she was scheduled to open soon in Ashton's Cinderella, which she had rehearsed for six months. It was the first time anyone had even seen her crushed. Unable to endure London without dancing, she went to Paris. Moira Shearer danced Cinderella in her place...