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Boylston was born Hildur Isabella Boylston, named for an Icelandic great-grandmother, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Her father Mike was an American country-blues drummer and "ski bum" while her mother Cornelia was a Swedish engineer. [1] [2] When she was seven, her family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where she
Isabella Boylston - American ballet dancer; Skylar Brandt - American ballet dancer; James Brown - African American dancer, entertainer, singer, musician and songwriter; Erik Bruhn - Danish ballet dancer and choreographer; Stéphane Bullion - French ballet dancer; Cheryl Burke - American ballroom and Latin dancer
Debra Austin was the very first African-American ballerina to receive a principal dancer contract with a major American ballet company [3] in 1982 with the Pennsylvania Ballet. There she danced the principal roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppélia, and La Sylphide. Dancing these roles with a white partner was a further breakthrough.
She's the Black Swan." Florida Former Ballet Dancer Charged With Murdering Husband Amid Custody Battle: Police Ashley Benefield was found guilty of fatally shooting her husband, Doug Benefield, in ...
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Millepied met actress Natalie Portman on the set of Black Swan in early 2009 [31] and left his partner at the time, Isabella Boylston, a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, to begin a relationship with Portman. [32] [33] [34] Millepied and Portman wed in a Jewish ceremony held in Big Sur, California on 4 August 2012.
The case, which became known as the "Black Swan murder" trial, garnered national attention, with some comparing Benefield to the protagonist of the 2010 film "Black Swan." The former ballerina was ...