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Marion Tait

British ballet mistress and dancer

Born 1950 · LondonUnited Kingdom

Marion Tait is a British ballet dancer and dance teacher, born in 1950 in London.

Biography

Marion Hooper Tait is a former ballerina and ballet mistress, and assistant director of Birmingham Royal Ballet since 2011.

Tait was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1992 New Year Honours, and promoted to Commander (CBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours for services to dance.

Tait was named Dancer of the Year 1994 and received the Evening Standard Ballet Award for Outstanding Performance.

In Birmingham Royal Ballet's 2013 production of The Sleeping Beauty, Tait played the wicked fairy Carabosse.

From the Wikipedia article “Marion Tait”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

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Vanessa Harwood

Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, teacher, actor

1947
Sonia Humphrey

Sonia Humphrey

Australian television presenter and journalist

1947–2011
Lesley Collier

Lesley Collier

British ballet dancer

1947
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Jan Francis

English actress

1947
Elisabeth Sladen

Elisabeth Sladen

British actress

1946–2011
David Wall

David Wall

British ballet dancer (1946-2013)

1946–2013
Debbie McGee

Debbie McGee

English television, radio and stage performer

1958
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Alfreda Thorogood

ballet dancer 1942—

1942

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