{{Short description|British ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person |name = Margaret Craske |image = Margaret Craske.jpg |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = 26 November 1892 |birth_place = Norfolk, England |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1990|2|18|1892|10|26}} |death_place = Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S. |other_names = Margareta Krasova |occupation = ballet dancer, ballet teacher, writer on ballet |known_for = Cecchetti method }}
'''Margaret Craske''' (26 November 1892 – 18 February 1990) was a British ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher of ballet.
==Life== Margaret Craske was born on 26 November 1892 in Norfolk, England,<ref name=odd>Debra Craine, Judith Mackrell (2010). ''The Oxford Dictionary of Dance''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780199563449}}. p. 110.</ref> daughter of Edmund and Hannah Craske.<ref>Public Record Office, East-Suffolk County Administration, Reference: RG 13/1802, p. 17.</ref> She was a pupil and disciple of Enrico Cecchetti. When Cecchetti retired to Italy in 1923 she took over teaching at his studio in West Street, London.<ref name=praagh>Peggy van Praagh (1984). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1290635 Working with Antony Tudor], ''Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research'' Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer, 1984), Edinburgh University Press. pp. 56-67. {{subscription required}}</ref> She taught and developed the Cecchetti method in England and later in the United States. From 1931 until her death she was a follower of Meher Baba.<ref>Jennifer Dunning (1990). "Margaret Craske Is Dead at 97", ''The New York Times'', 23 February 1990, pg. B5.</ref>
She lived in India from 1939 until 1946, when she moved to the United States and resumed teaching, first at the American Ballet Theatre. From 1950 she taught at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, and from 1968 until 1983 at the Manhattan School of Dance.<ref name=odd/>
Her pupils include many of the most important names in ballet in the English-speaking world, including Sir Frederick Ashton, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Sir Robert Helpmann, Cyril Beaumont, and Antony Tudor.<ref name=praagh/><ref>[http://www.cicb.org/pioneers/pioneers-margaret-craske/ Pioneers - Margaret Craske] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202959/http://www.cicb.org/pioneers/pioneers-margaret-craske/ |date=29 October 2013 }}. Cecchetti International Classical Ballet. Accessed December 2013.</ref>
==Publications== The published works of Margaret Craske include: *Margaret Craske, Cyril William Beaumont (1930). ''The Theory and Practice of Allegro in Classical Ballet (Cecchetti Method)''. [London]: C. W. Beaumont. *{{long dash}}, Friderica Derra de Moroda (1956). ''The Theory and Practice of Advanced Allegro in Classical Ballet, Cecchetti method ... Edited with a preface by Cyril Beaumont''. London: C. W. Beaumont. *{{long dash}} (1980). ''The Dance of Love: my life with Meher Baba''. North Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Press. {{ISBN|9780913078402}}. *{{long dash}} (1990). ''Still Dancing with Love: more stories of life with Meher Baba''. Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Press. {{ISBN|9780913078648}}.<ref>Craske, Margaret (1990) ''Still dancing with love : more stories of life with Meher Baba'', Sheriar Press. pp. 103–104. {{LCCN|89078069}}.</ref>
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