Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ninette de Valois NPG 5426

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Zsuzsi Roboz

Born in Ireland, Edris Stannus began her training with the Lila Field Academy for Children in London. She took the stage name Ninette de Valois and during the war danced at the Lyceum. In 1919 she became premiere danseuse at Covent Garden and she was a member of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes for two seasons, 1923-5. Resolved to form her own company, she established the Academy of Choreographic Art in 1926 and was engaged to arrange dances at the Old Vic. She founded the Vic-Wells Ballet... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.