Lander, Toni
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Name (Hebrew)
לאנדר, טוני
Name (Latin)
Lander, Toni
Date of birth
1931-06-19
Date of death
1985-05-19
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- NYPL Dict. Cat. of the Dance Coll., 1974-
Wikipedia description:
Toni Lander née Pihl Petersen (1931–1985) was a Danish ballerina who specialized in the ballets of August Bournonville. After becoming a solo dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet in 1950, she was a guest dancer with the Original Ballet Russe in 1951. She was then engaged by the Paris Opera Ballet until 1954. Lander also appeared with the London Festival Ballet in the late 1950s and with the American Ballet Theatre in the 1960s. After a few years back in Denmark in the early 1970s, in 1976 she joined the Ballet West in Salt Lake City. After a short illness, she died there of cancer in May 1985.
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