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'''William Dollar''' (April |
'''William Dollar''' (20 April 1907 – 28 February 1986) was an American dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and teacher. As one of the first American ''danseurs nobles'', he performed with numerous companies, including the Philadelphia Opera Ballet, the American Ballet, Ballet Caravan, Ballet Society, Ballet Theatre, and New York City Ballet.<ref>Horst Koegler, "Dollar, William," in ''The Conciser Oxford Dictionary of Ballet,'' 2d ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).</ref> |
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==Early life and training== |
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William studied with [[George Balanchine]], [[Michel Fokine]], and [[Pierre Vladimirov]]. He also trained under [[Mikhail Mordkin]] of the [[Ballets Russes]] and performed in ''Chopin Concerto'' with the [[Metropolitan Opera]] Company. He was a leading dancer with the [[American Ballet]], [[Ballet Caravan]] and the [[American Ballet Caravan]] companies that preceded and led to the establishment of the [[New York City Ballet]] in 1948. His creations with those companies included roles in Balanchine's versions of ''[[Le Baiser de la Fee]]'', ''The Card Party'' and ''Transcendence'', which Balanchine choreographed especially for him. |
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==Professional career== |
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His first ballet, ''Classic Ballet'', was choreographed with Balanchine. Dollar restaged this work in 1944 as ''Constantia'' for Ballet International. He choreographed many other ballets, of which his best known is ''The Duel'', originally staged in 1949 as ''Le Combat'' for [[Roland Petit]]'s Ballets de Paris. Dollar also created the ballet for the [[Ford Motor Company]] pavilion at the [[1939 New York World's Fair|New York World's Fair]] of 1939 at [[Flushing Meadows]]. |
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===Dancer=== |
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He worked with ballet companies in Brazil, Japan and Monte Carlo, and founded a national ballet company in Iran. Dollar was one of the country's top performers in terpsichorean art and made five appearances at the Municipal Opera in [[St. Louis]].<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/168260/William-Dollar Britannica]</ref> and choreographer <ref>[http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1907/april_20_1907_71531.html Brainy History]</ref> |
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* [http://www.nypl.org/archives/125334 Yvonne Patterson and William Dollar papers, The New York Public Library] |
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William Dollar (20 April 1907 – 28 February 1986) was an American dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and teacher. As one of the first American danseurs nobles, he performed with numerous companies, including the Philadelphia Opera Ballet, the American Ballet, Ballet Caravan, Ballet Society, Ballet Theatre, and New York City Ballet.[1]
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- ^ Horst Koegler, "Dollar, William," in The Conciser Oxford Dictionary of Ballet, 2d ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982).