Maude Lloyd was a South African ballet dancer and teacher who immigrated to England and became an important figure in early British ballet.
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15 Facts About Maude Lloyd
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Maude Lloyd had a significant second career as a dance critic, writing with her husband under the nom de plume Alexander Bland.
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Maude Lloyd was born in Cape Town, the southernmost city and legislative capital of South Africa.
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Maude Lloyd arrived in England sometime in 1924 or 1925, when she was 16 or 17, and promptly enrolled in Rambert's school.
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On returning to England in 1930, Maude Lloyd was among Rambert's students who became founding members of her Ballet Club, the performing group from which Ballet Rambert was to evolve.
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Maude Lloyd danced with this group at several West End theaters and on tours outside London, as well as appearing in repertory works with the Camargo Society.
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Maude Lloyd followed Pearl Argyle and Alicia Markova, the company's first ballerinas, in many of their created roles but soon had new roles of her own.
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When Maude Lloyd met Antony Tudor in one of Rambert's classes in 1930, she was immediately drawn to him, and he to her.
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Maude Lloyd made successful appearances in the classical repertory, dancing Aurora in Rambert's version of Aurora's Wedding, the Prelude in Les Sylphides, and Odette in a one-act version of Swan Lake.
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Maude Lloyd was one of the Rambert dancers who became founding members of this newly formed company.
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Maude Lloyd created important roles in the ballets of Antony Tudor and other choreographers working in London in the 1930s.
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Maude Lloyd began a second career when Richard Buckle persuaded her to start writing reviews of dance performances for his magazine Ballet, working in tandem with her husband.
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Maude Lloyd had enjoyed an ideal marriage with Nigel Gosling, so his death was a devastating loss to her, as it was to Nureyev, who had admired Gosling's intelligence, culture, and quiet dignity.
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Maude Lloyd survived her husband for another twenty years, sustained by the care and attention of Nureyev and others.
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Maude Lloyd died peacefully at her home in Kensington in the presence of family and friends.
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