Rhodes, Lawrence

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Rhodes, Lawrence
Date of birth
1939-11-24
Date of death
2019-03-28
Field of activity
Ballet
Occupation
Ballet dancers
Gender
male
MARC
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 24869384
Wikidata: Q21598325
Library of congress: nr 00003072
Sources of Information
  • Chujoy, A. Dance enc., c1967(Rhodes, Lawrence, Amer. dancer)
  • Five ballets of the five senses [VR] c1967:cast credits (Lawrence Rhodes; dancer)
  • New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 11, 2019(in obituary published Apr. 10: Lawrence Rhodes; b. Nov. 24, 1939, Mount Hope, W. Va.; moved with his family to Detroit when he was 2; d. Mar. 27, Manhattan, aged 79; one of American ballet's greatest male dancers, who won high praise in the 1960s and '70s in both classical showpieces and dramatic dance studies of modern angst)

Wikipedia description:

Lawrence Rhodes (November 24, 1939 – March 27, 2019) was an American premier dancer, dance teacher and director of ballet companies and the dance divisions of New York University and the Juilliard School.

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