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Aesha Ash (born December 30, 1977) is an American ballet dancer and teacher. She danced numerous leading roles as a member of New York City Ballet's corps de ballet and as a soloist with Béjart Ballet and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Following her retirement from performing, she founded The Swan Dreams Project ...
In 2005 he received the Artist of the Year Award from the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. [6] In 2012, Fagan was named one of America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition. In 2021, Fagan was awarded the Eastman Luminary Award from the Eastman School of Music for his achievements in modern Dance Awards
Lucy Bowen McCauley (born March 28, 1959) is an American choreographer, dancer and teacher. She founded the Bowen McCauley Dance Company (BMDC) in 1996 and was artistic director for its entire 25-year existence.
Tiler Peck (born 1989), ballet dancer, principal dancer, New York City Ballet; Unity Phelan, ballet dancer, soloist, New York City Ballet; Valarie Pettiford, Fosse; Juanita Pitts, tap dancer; Eleanor Powell (1912–1982), dancer and actress; Pearl Primus (1919–1994), dancer, choreographer and anthropologist, pioneer of African dance in the US
It is also used as a description of the place of a particular dancer within a company. "Prima ballerina literally translates to “first principal dancer” from Italian and, in the United States, is better known as someone who is a female principal dancer. These dancers are the best in their companies who perform the lead roles in ballets ...
Edward Villella (born October 1, 1936) is an American ballet dancer and choreographer. He is frequently cited as America's most celebrated male dancer of ballet at the time. [1] [2] He has won numerous awards, including the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the National Medal of Arts.
She moved permanently to New York at age 15, again on a Ford Foundation scholarship to the School of American Ballet. Watts joined the New York City Ballet in 1970 and was promoted to principal dancer by company co-founder George Balanchine in 1979. Balanchine took Watts into his company "because he would not let such a talent disappear."
Lois Bewley (1934–2012) was an American dancer, choreographer and designer. She studied at the School of American Ballet before joining the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo. After touring with the American Ballet Theatre and the dance companies of Alicia Markova and Jerome Robbins, she joined the New York City Ballet in 1960. Regarded as the ...