Edna Deane was a British choreographer, born in 1905 in United Kingdom, who died in 1995.
Biography
Edna Morton Deane (née Sewell; 15 October 1905 – 22 November 1995) was an English professional ballroom dancer, author and choreographer who won the British and world ballroom dancing championships. She co-founded the Deane School of Dance and Drama and earned fame for being asked by the future Edward VIII for a dance nine times at a ball in the mid-1920s, which inspired the writing of the popular song "I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales".
Contemporaries
Frederick Ashton
British dancer and choreographer (1904–1988)
Arnold Cooke
British composer (1906–2005)
Leighton Lucas
British composer (1903-1982)
Mary Skeaping
British ballet dancer
Antony Tudor
British dancer and choreographer (1908–1987)
Alicia Markova
British ballerina, choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet (1910-2004)
Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976)
Joy Newton
ballet dancer 1913—1996
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