Founded the Hurst Lodge School in Sunningdale, England.
Dorice Stainer founded Hurst Lodge School in the aftermath of the Second World War as a course of "Dancing Classes". She was the sister of actor Leslie Howard, and also of Irene Howard, the London casting director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In the 1920s, Stainer had been a partner in 'The Misses Stainer and Sinclair, Dancing Teachers', of 39, Onslow Square, South Kensington, London S.W.7, and after 1928 had continued the business alone at the same address. Immediately before the War, she had been a traveling dance teacher based in Ascot, teaching classes at Camberley, Godalming, Guildford, Sunningdale, Virginia Water, and a variety of schools around England.
The actress Juliet Stevenson, a pupil of Miss Stainer's at Hurst Lodge in the 1960s, has described her as "a progressively educational woman who had been a prima ballerina and who believed the arts were fundamental to a child's education".
Dorice Stainer founded Hurst Lodge School in the aftermath of the Second World War as a course of "Dancing Classes". She was the sister of actor Leslie Howard, and also of Irene Howard, the London casting director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In the 1920s, Stainer had been a partner in 'The Misses Stainer and Sinclair, Dancing Teachers', of 39, Onslow Square, South Kensington, London S.W.7, and after 1928 had continued the business alone at the same address. Immediately before the War, she had been a traveling dance teacher based in Ascot, teaching classes at Camberley, Godalming, Guildford, Sunningdale, Virginia Water, and a variety of schools around England.
The actress Juliet Stevenson, a pupil of Miss Stainer's at Hurst Lodge in the 1960s, has described her as "a progressively educational woman who had been a prima ballerina and who believed the arts were fundamental to a child's education".
Founded the Hurst Lodge School in Sunningdale, England.
Dorice Stainer founded Hurst Lodge School in the aftermath of the Second World War as a course of "Dancing Classes". She was the sister of actor Leslie Howard, and also of Irene Howard, the London casting director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In the 1920s, Stainer had been a partner in 'The Misses Stainer and Sinclair, Dancing Teachers', of 39, Onslow Square, South Kensington, London S.W.7, and after 1928 had continued the business alone at the same address. Immediately before the War, she had been a traveling dance teacher based in Ascot, teaching classes at Camberley, Godalming, Guildford, Sunningdale, Virginia Water, and a variety of schools around England.
The actress Juliet Stevenson, a pupil of Miss Stainer's at Hurst Lodge in the 1960s, has described her as "a progressively educational woman who had been a prima ballerina and who believed the arts were fundamental to a child's education".
Dorice Stainer founded Hurst Lodge School in the aftermath of the Second World War as a course of "Dancing Classes". She was the sister of actor Leslie Howard, and also of Irene Howard, the London casting director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
In the 1920s, Stainer had been a partner in 'The Misses Stainer and Sinclair, Dancing Teachers', of 39, Onslow Square, South Kensington, London S.W.7, and after 1928 had continued the business alone at the same address. Immediately before the War, she had been a traveling dance teacher based in Ascot, teaching classes at Camberley, Godalming, Guildford, Sunningdale, Virginia Water, and a variety of schools around England.
The actress Juliet Stevenson, a pupil of Miss Stainer's at Hurst Lodge in the 1960s, has described her as "a progressively educational woman who had been a prima ballerina and who believed the arts were fundamental to a child's education".
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