Throwback Thursday and Diana Gould
Born in London on November 12, 1912,
Diana Rosamond Constance Grace Irene Gould studied dance with Marie Rambert.
She was tall (5’6”), and apparently went through an awkward stage that earned
her the nickname “Clumsina”. But she obviously outgrew her clumsiness, and Anna
Pavlova described her as the only dancer she’d seen who “had a soul”.
Diana Gould danced with Marie Rambert’s
company in the 1930s and briefly with George Ballanchine’s Les Ballets company in 1933. She declined his offer to join his new
school in the United States. She worked with the Alicia Markova-Anton Dolin
Company in 1935 and with Colonel de
Basil's Ballets Russes. She also became an actress and model.
But she is probably best known as the
wife of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. They met in 1944 when he was still married,
but he courted her for three years and after his marriage ended, she finally
agreed to marry him. After that she ended her own career and focused on helping
him with his. He died in 1999.
Diana Gould wrote two autobiographies: Fiddler’s Moll in 1984 and A Glimpse of Olympus
in 1996. She died on January 25, 2003.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Secret #207:
“Diana Gould was a British ballerina and wife of
violinist Yehudi Menuhin.”
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