My mother-in-law, Sara Lemkow, who has died aged 102, was, under the stage name Sara Luzita, an acclaimed dancer for 20 years.
As a dance student in London at the outbreak of the second world war, when the capital’s theatres temporarily closed, Sara was evacuated to Cheltenham. There, she was astonished at the start of 1940 to be invited to join Keith Lester’s new Arts Theatre Ballet. She hurried back to London, and her career took off.
