e/Laurel Martyn

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has gloss	eng: Laurel Martyn (born 1916, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia ) was an Australian ballerina. She studied under Kathleen Hamilton in Toowoomba, Marjorie Hollinshed in Brisbane, and Phyllis Bedells in London. In 1934 Martyn won a choreographic scholarship from the Association of Operatic Dancing (later the Royal Academy of Dance) for her first composition Exile. In 1935, she became the second Australian to win the Adeline Genee gold medal. Martyn joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (later Sadlers Wells Ballet) in 1936 as the first Australian woman to be accepted into the company. By 1938 she was a soloist. In 1938 she returned to Australia and became a dancing teacher. In 1940 she joined Edouard Borovanskys Borovansky Ballet. Martyn left the Borovansky Ballet after her marriage to Lloyd Lawton in 1945.
lexicalization	eng: Laurel Martyn
instance of	c/1916 births