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Alexander Grant (dancer)
Alexander Grant (22 February 1925 – 30 September 2011) was a New Zealand ballet dancer, teacher, and company director.〔Barbara Newmam, "Grant, Alexander," in ''International Encyclopedia of Dance'', edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen and others (New York: Oxford University Press, 1009), vol. 3, pp. 236-237.〕 After moving to London as a young man, he became known as "the Royal Ballet's most remarkable actor-dancer in its golden period from the 1940s to the 1960s."〔Anonymous, "Alexander Grant," obituary, ''The Telegraph'' (London), 4 October 2011.〕
==Early life and training ==
Alexander Marshall Grant was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of hoteliers,〔Anna Kisselgoff, "Alexander Grant, Dancer with Royal Ballet, Dies at 86," obituary, ''International New York Times'', 3 October 2011.〕 during the prosperous 1920s. He resolved to become a professional dancer at the age of six, when he was taught to perform a simple folk dance, a Ukrainian ''trepak'', and discovered the joy of performing. He began taking dancing lessons when he was seven and, under the tutelage of Kathleen O'Brien and Jean Horne, was an experienced amateur by age fifteen. Inspired by performances of Russian ballet troupes that he saw in Australia, he had already begun to develop the exuberant, energetic, and highly theatrical style that would become his trademark in later life. As a result, he won a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Dance to study in England. But, because of the outbreak of war in Europe, he was forced to remain in New Zealand. He studied at Wellington College from 1939 to 1941 and thereafter performed as a song-and-dance man entertaining troops in the Pacific〔Debra Craine and Judith Mackkrill, "Grant, Alexander," in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Dance'' (Oxford University Press, 2000).〕 while continuing his dance training during the wartime years. In 1946, after peace had come to England, Grant was able to go to London and enroll in the Sadler's Wells Ballet School. He arrived in February, when he was twenty-one years old. His time as a student there was brief, however, for he was soon invited to become a founding member of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, a sister company to the Sadler's Wells Ballet, which had relocated to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
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