Mrs
Mary-Jane Duckworth
Mary-Jane
Duckworth was trained in the Cecchetti Method at the
University of Cape Town Ballet School with Mrs Dulcie
Howes. She went on to the Royal Ballet School and danced
professionally with the Royal Ballet, the Sadler's Wells
Theatre Ballet and with the Ballet Russe.
She
is now Principal of a ballet school in Northamptonshire,
which was started in 1966. She has been an examiner
for the Cecchetti Method since 1978, and has been a
member of the Cecchetti Society Classical Ballet Faculty
committee since 1983. She was Chairman from 1990 to
1999 and is now Senior International Co-ordinator.
She
has served a member of the Council of Management of
the ISTD, has represented the Cecchetti Society Faculty
on the Theatre Faculty Board of the ISTD, is a member
of the Council for Dance Education and Training and
is a Trustee of the Dance Teachers Benevolent Fund.
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