[2] She started dancing very young, according to one of her early biographers, appearing on stage for the first time at age five at La Scala.

This training was supplemented by lessons from Tamara Karsavina and Vera Volkova, both of whom had settled in London after fleeing Bolshevik Russia.

[3] She was soon appearing with the Ballet Club (which became Ballet Rambert in 1934) at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate and at 15 she danced the part of Papillon in Mikhail Fokine's Carnaval,[4]: 79  alongside actors Frederick Ashton as Pierrot, Harold Turner as Harlequin, Alicia Markova as Columbine and Antony Tudor as Eusebius.

However she became dissatisfied with the Cecchetti method as taught by Rambert and took lessons in the traditional Maryinsky system from Lubov Egorova, Mathilde Kschessinska and Olga Preobrajenska in Paris and Nicholas Legat in London.

The company's repertoire over its 12-year existence contained 22 ballets and Inglesby danced lead parts in most of them, including the classical roles of Giselle, Swanhilda in Coppelia, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty and Odette/Odile in Swan Lake.

[2]: 33  Ballet Today magazine described her as having 'some remarkable qualities as a dancer; she is exceptionally light, swift and aerial with strong, beautiful feet'.

[6] It was while at the Rambert company that Inglesby developed her interest in choreography, inspired by a core group of fellow dancers who were becoming notable choreographers -- Frederick Ashton, Andree Howard, Antony Tudor, Ninette de Valois and Walter Gore.

The single performance of Ballets de la Jeunesse Anglaise was a charity matinee at the Cambridge Theatre in 1938, and Endymion was well received.

On the outbreak of war she volunteered to drive an ambulance, but continued with her ballet, and in February 1940 she opened a studio in borrowed premises in South Kensington[2] at which she and like minded friends could practice.

One of her main designers was Doris Zinkeisen[9] Under her direction the International Ballet made its debut in the Alhambra Theatre Glasgow[10] on 19 May 1941, with a full orchestra.

As a result, International Ballet became recognised as Britain's largest classical touring company, doing much in the process to expand the British audience for dance.

[1] In 1951, when the Royal Festival Hall opened, International Ballet gave the inaugural performances, and from 1951 to 1953 it made tours of Switzerland, Italy and Spain.

After drawing a blank in England, she approached the well-known London theatre memorabilia dealer and dance historian Ifan Kyrle Fletcher.