Ninja, Willi
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Name (Latin)
Ninja, Willi
Other forms of name
Leake, William R
Date of birth
1961-04-12
Date of death
2006-09-02
Occupation
Choreographers
Dancers
Gender
male
MARC
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Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- *MGZIC 9-3355 Everybody dance now [videorecording] 1991.
- African American National Biography, accessed March 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Ninja, Willi; William Roscoe Leake; choreographer / dance director, dancer; born 12 April 1961 in New Hyde Park, Long Island, New York, United States; famous for Paris Is Burning film (1990); Grand Jury Prize from Sundance Film Festival (1991); graduated from Bayside High School (1980); formed own ball troupe, The House of Ninja; recorded music video Deep in Vogue (1988); taught vogue in Japan (1989); was introduced by McClaren to fashion houses in Europe: Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld and hired as runway coach; launched the House of Latex with Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York, annual benefit ball raising funds for AIDS prevention work; formed modeling agency EON (Elements of Ninja), and television show America's Next Top Model (2004); died 02 September 2006 in New York, New York, United States from AIDS-related heart attack)
- New York times WWW site, Sept. 6, 2006(Willi Ninja; b. William R. Leake, Apr. 12, 1961, Queens; d. there Saturday [Sept. 2, 2006], aged 45; known as the Grandfather of Vogue, a dance form that he helped move from the New York club scene of the 1980s to the concert stage)