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Julia Farron was born on 22 July 1922.
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Julia Farron
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In 1936, having completed five years of study at the ballet school, she joined the Vic-Wells Ballet, becoming the company"s youngest member, aged fourteen.
Career
In 1931, Farron became the first pupil to receive a scholarship to study under the direction of Dame Ninette de Valois at the Vic-Wells Ballet School. She made her professional stage debut in a pantomime in 1934, aged twelve. The following year in 1937, she danced her first created role, Pepe the Dog, in the ballet A Wedding Bouquet choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton.
After retiring from the professional stage, she was appointed as a teacher at the Royal Ballet School in 1964.
She was appointed Assistant Director of the Royal Academy of Dance in 1982, becoming Director in 1983. and eventually retired in 1989, with an honorary life fellowship of the organisation (FRAD). In 1994, the Royal Academy of Dance awarded her the for outstanding services to ballet.
Most recently, she has sponsored the redevelopment of the White Lodge Museum and Ballet Resource Centre. Farron was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to ballet.
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English