Bio:Connery Chappell

Chappell studied art before training to be a dancer with Marie Rambert. He became friends with Frederick Ashton and in 1928 they joined Ida Rubinstein's company in Paris. On returning to London he danced with Rambert's Ballet Club and began designing sets and costumes for Ashton. He joined the Vic-Wells Ballet in 1931 and danced with Margot Fonteyn in her first important role in Rio Grande, 1935. His designs for the Company included Cephalus and Procris by de Valois (1931), Ashton's Les Rendezvous (1933) and Les Patineurs (1937) and new decors for Giselle (1935) and Coppèlia (1946).

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From the catalog entry for Chappell in the National Portrait Gallery, which has 10 photographs of him.