Maryon Lane

Maryon Lane (February 15, 1931 - June 13, 2008) was a principal Ballerina with the Royal Ballet Maryon Lane was born Patricia Mills on February 15, 1931 in Zululand, South Africa. She studied in Johannesburg and in 1946 went to the Sadler's Wells School in London after winning a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Dancing. In the year afterward, she became a member of Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, founded by Ninette de Valois. It was at this point in her life that she changed her name to Maryon Lane as the theatre had another South African dancer called Patricia Miller. Aged seventeen, Lane had risen rapidly to become the principal soloist at the theatre, starring in ballets by Frederick Ashton and Ninette De Valois. By 1953, she...