Background
Walter Gore was born in Waterside, Scotland in 1910 into a theatrical family.
Walter Gore was born in Waterside, Scotland in 1910 into a theatrical family.
From 1924, he studied acting at the Italia Conti Academy, and dance with Léonide Massine and with Marie Rambert.
Gore was a dancer with Ballet Rambert from 1930 to 1935. He returned as a choreographer in 1938 with his first ballet Final Waltz. In 1944, whilst on leave from Army duty in France, Gore created a ballet based on Benjamin Britten"s Simple Symphony also entitled Simple Symphony for the Ballet Rambert.
The work was largely created on Sally Gilmour and Margaret Scott.
He remained at Ballet Rambert until 1950 and then worked occasionally with the Ballets des Champs-Elysées and the Sadler"s Wells Ballet. He founded his own company, The Walter Gore Ballet, in 1953.
At that time he also became director of the recently founded Gulbenkian Ballet, Lisbon. He has to his cr more than 80 choreographies.