Margaret Dorothy Louise Daniels MBE (1 August 1916 – 27 June 1981) was a New Zealand ballet teacher and director.
She was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 1 August 1916, the third of four children of Winifred Louise Smart and her husband, Frederick William Daniels, a civil servant.
At the age of 15, she opened her first studio at King's Chambers, at the corner of Willeston and Willis Streets.
[1] In 1965, she took up a Teacher's Award from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand to observe ballet teaching methods in the United Kingdom and Europe, including Russia, where she studied the Bolshoi Ballet.
[1] In the 1976 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to ballet.