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Alexis Rassine
Alexis Rassine (26 July 1919 – 25 July 1992) was a South African ballet dancer who enjoyed his greatest success with the Sadler's Wells Ballet in England in the 1940s and early 1950s.〔Mary Clarke, ''The Sadler's Wells Ballet: A History and an Appreciation'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1955).〕 He is remembered as a classical dancer who made "a major contribution to British ballet" during wartime and "helped to keep the flag flying when all about was chaos and disaster."〔John Gregory, "Alexis Rassine," obituary, ''The Independent'' (London), 4 August 1992.〕
==Early life and training==
Rassine was born Alexis Rayes (or Raysman) in Kaunas, Lithuania, to Jewish Russian parents.〔Marina Grut, "Rassine, Alexis," in ''International Encyclopedia of Dance'', edited by Selma Jeanne Cohen and others (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), vol. 5, p. 312.〕 His earliest years there are obscure, but it can be assumed that he spoke Russian with his parents and that he learned some English as a boy. In 1929, when he was 10, his family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where he perfected his English-language skills and gained a new nationality. (In later life, he spoke in a distinctive, high-pitched voice with a mid-European accent offset with South African overtones.〔Gregory, "Alexis Rassine," obituary, 4 August 1992.〕) As a youth of 14, he began his dance training with Helen Webb and Maude Lloyd, who soon recognized his unusual talent.〔Marina Grut, "Rassine, Alexis," in ''The History of Ballet in South Africa'' (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1981), p. 403.〕 Encouraged by them, he left South Africa in 1937, when he was 18, and went to Paris, where he continued his studies with the Russian émigré teachers Olga Preobrajenska and Alexandre Volinine. While still a student, he made his professional stage debut dancing in a ballet at the Bal Tabarin, a glamorous cabaret not far from the Palais Garnier, home of the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris.
Upon failing to win a place in the Paris Opera Ballet, Rassine set his sights on London. Arriving there penniless but talented, at a time when male dancers were in short supply, he found teachers willing to give him free tuition, going to Stanislas Idzikowski in the mornings and to Igor Schwezoff in the evenings. He also studied with Vera Volkova at the Sadler's Wells Ballet School. After a brief stint with Ballet Rambert in 1938, he joined a touring ensemble known as the Trois Arts Ballet, where he gained stage experience and learned fragments of the classical repertory.〔Mary Clarke and David Vaughan, eds., "Rassine, Alexis," in ''The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet'' (New York: Putnam, 1977).〕
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