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Gailene Patricia Stock was born in [[Ballarat]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. She was the second of three daughters to Roy and Sylvia. She began dancing from the age of three. However, she contracted polio at the age of 8, which left her hospital in an iron frame for 18 months. Remarkably, she was back dancing again by the time she was 12, attending the school of Paul Hammond, formerly a leading soloist with the [[Borovansky Ballet]].
Two years later, however, she had another setback when she suffered serious injury - a fractured skull and jaw - following a collision between a cement lorry and her
==Rise to Principal Dancer==
In 1962, at the age of 16, Stock was awarded a Royal Academy of Dance scholarship to
When The Australian Ballet embarked on its first European tour in 1965, Stock was part of the company, and toured on subsequent tours, including one to the United States, during which many dancers sustained injuries. On that tour, Stock recalled, she did 69 performances in 69 days.
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==Return to London==
Gailene Stock moved to [[The Royal Ballet School]] in 1999, with her family. She immediately set to work changing the curriculum in order to make the student dancers more employment-ready upon graduation. When she joined, employment rates were around 48% and steadily rose to over 98% during her tenure.<ref name="independent"
She opened the doors to students from all over the world, which angered many of the establishment within the English ballet.<ref name="brisbanetimes"/> Over her 15 years, she oversaw the splendid refurbishments of the school's junior and senior sections, achieving a much-praised move of the Royal Ballet School's senior section from dowdy [[Chiswick]] premises to an award-winning conversion next to the [[Royal Opera House]] in Covent Garden, and upgrading the younger section's accommodation in [[White Lodge]], [[Richmond Park]].<ref name="brisbanetimes">{{cite news|url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/obituaries/gailene-stock-resilient-dancer-overcame-injuries-illhealth-and-insults-all-the-way-to-the-top-20140501-zr2e2.html|title=Resilient dancer overcame injuries, ill-health and insults, all the way to the top|newspaper=The Brisbane Times|location=Brisbane, Australia|date= 1 May 2014|accessdate=1 May 2014}}</ref>
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==Honours==
In 1997, she was appointed by The Queen as a Member of the [[Order of Australia]] for services to ballet<ref>[http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=869921&search_type=simple&showInd=true It's an Honour]. Retrieved 4 May 2014</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.royalballetschool.org.uk/2014/04/gailene-stock-1946-2014|title=Gailene Stock CBE AM 1946-2014|publisher=Royal Ballet School|date=29 April 2014|accessdate=3 May 2014}}</ref> In 2013, Stock received the honour of [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, dated 5 June 2013. The insignia was brought to her hospital bed, where she was being treated for cancer.
==Awards==
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