Editing Marie Rambert (section)

==Training==
Rambert began her dance training in her schooling early on. Subjects such as foreign languages and history seemed to come easy; however she was a restless child and ended up getting bad marks because of her endless movements during class. At one point in her early training her dance instructor stated that 'In her, was the true spirit of dance.'<ref>Mary Clark and Marie Rambert "Dancers of Mercury; the story of Ballet Rambert" (London, A & C Black, 1962), p. 15.</ref> She was unimpressed with the structure and performance of ballet, and was not drawn into dance as a passion until she became enthralled by [[Isadora Duncan]] when, in 1904,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rambert-marie-1888-1982|title=Rambert, Marie (1888–1|website=[[encyclopedia.com]]|access-date=6 January 2025}}</ref> she attended one of Duncan's performances, and was "profoundly moved by the beauty of Duncan's dance".<ref>Marie Rambert, "Quicksilver", page 24.</ref>

In 1905, after becoming active in political riots, and the tragic day of May Day, Rambert's parents urged her at one point to move to Paris and take up medicine while safely living with her aunt and uncle who were also doctors. She attended a party where she danced a mazurka and danced it with such liveliness that there was applause afterwards; this was her first performance, whether she thought it or not. She met [[Raymond Duncan (dancer)|Raymond Duncan]], brother of Isadora, at this same party, who congratulated her on a wonderful performance, and again she was back into her passion for dance. She studied with Madame Rat from the [[Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris|Paris Opera]], and later studied with [[Émile Jaques-Dalcroze]], at Dalcroze College who introduced her to [[eurhythmics]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nijinska|first1=Bronislava|editor1-last=Nijinska|editor1-first=Irina|title=Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs|date=1981|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston|location=New York|isbn=0-03-020951-X|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bronislavanijins00niji/page/454 454–455]|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/bronislavanijins00niji/page/454}}</ref>

One day at the Dalcroze College, [[Sergei Diaghilev]], watched a class and then asked her to come back to Berlin and study with him in the [[Ballets Russes]]. There, Rambert aided them with figuring out [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ''[[The Rite of Spring]]'' with [[Vaslav Nijinsky]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/14/obituaries/marie-rambert-94-a-leader-in-ballet.html|title=MARIE RAMBERT, 94, A LEADER IN BALLET|first=Jack|last=anderson|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=14 June 1982}}</ref> She hesitantly accepted and collaborated with the Ballets Russes led by Diaghilev from 1912 to 1913. {{citation needed|date=May 2014}} In Ballets Russes she was in the corps de ballet for ballet performances such as ''[[Swan Lake]]'', ''[[Giselle]]'', and ''[[Scheherazade]]''. After a tour with Nijinsky and Ballets Russes, Rambert's contract was not continued and she decided it was time for a new chapter. In 1914, she moved to the United Kingdom, and studied under [[Enrico Cecchetti]].<ref>Jane Pritchard, "Rambert: A Celebration of the Company’s First Seventy Years" (London, Rambert Dance Company 1996), pp. 13–20.<!-- ISBN needed --></ref>