Tag: Dance

Jean Orr is acknowledged as the first Canadian Giselle. She is the Founding President of Ballet BC and is current Honorary Chair of the Founders Council. Throughout her rich career she has participated in the dance communities of Ottawa, Winnipeg Montreal and Vancouver. Among her career highlights she includes being Principal Dancer at The Royal…
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Prior to her life in dance, Lola MacLaughlin was a student of biology and psychology, and did a stint as a singer with a German rock band. She graduated from dance studies at Simon Fraser University and continued her training in New York, Toronto and Vancouver. Seminally influenced by her studies at the Freie Universitat…
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Beloved Vancouver born dancer/teacher, Maria Lewis (also known as Mary Louise Crowhurst) attended Kitsilano High School and studied at the Rosemary Deveson School in Vancouver under Nicolai Svetlanoff, Betty Blygh and Jean Jepson. Maria had a notable career with the National Ballet of Canada, the Montreal Ballet, and on various television shows before returning to…
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Max Wyman was born in Wellingborough, England on May 14th, 1939, Max studied piano and theory as a youth and began his career in journalism with the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph at 14. After studies at The University of Nottingham he worked 1960-7 as an editor, arts critic, and feature writer for London newspapers and magazines. He moved to Canada in…
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