30-04-2025
Prue Skene obituary: Executive director of Ballet Rambert
Prue Skene had only been with Ballet Rambert for a few months when in 1976 she was tasked with organising the company's 50th anniversary gala performance at Sadler's Wells. 'We tried to invite everybody who had ever been connected with the company,' she told Rambert Voices, the company's oral history project. It was before the days of computers and databases, 'but we did manage to reach an awful lot of people'.
Not all Rambert's alumni were co-operative. Diana Gould, a former ballerina married to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, was still scarred from her experience many years earlier of working with Marie Rambert, the company's founder. 'I can't be in the same building as that woman,' she told Skene, who remembered 'an hour-long telephone conversation about
