title: Claude Newman
text: # Claude Newman
  
  Claude Newman was a British ballet dancer with the Vic-Wells Ballet.
  
  He had lead roles in Frederick Ashton's The Wise Virgins and Ninette de Valois' The Prospect Before Us.
  
  By 1943, Newman was the company's ballet master.
  
  In 1943, he danced The Lepidopterist in de Valois' Promenade.
  
  