Rambert Ballet gradually widened its repertoire. Classic works, such as Giselle and Don Quicote, as well as more and more frequent performances abroad, started to appear alongside authorial choreographies and modern dance. In the late 1940s, Marie took part in the group’s tournée in Australia and New Zealand. She also performed in Italy, China and the United States.
The 1960s were truly revolutionary for the group. Marie, at the instigation of her student and Norman Morrice, reorganised the group, foregoing on the corp de ballets and incorporating soloists specialised in the modern dance technique.
In 1972, she published an autobiography titled Quicksilver. A few years later the book’s Polish translation, with a preface by Maria Kuncewicz, was released by Czytelnik under the title Żywe Srebro. Marie Rambert died in 1982 at the age of 94. In 2013, Rambert Dance Company presented a show inspired by its founder’s life and work, using fragments of historical choreographies and archive material. One can also watch them in the Rambert Archive, which stores hundreds of photographs, posters, exhibition pieces, music scores and reviews documenting Rambert Dance Company’s history.
Sources: www.rambert.org.uk, www.britannica.com, www.balet.pl, www.jwa.org, The Guardian, Wysokie Obcasy, New York Times. Originally compiled in Polish by Anna Legierska, Nov 2017, translated by Patryk Grabowski, Dec 2017