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Born in St. Louis, William
Dollar trained almost entirely in
the United States, studying
with George Balanchine,
Michel Fokine, Mikhail
Mordkin, and Pierre
Vladimirov. Dollar 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 (ater known as
Card Game), and
Transcendence, which
Balanchine choreographed
especially for
him.
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, he
originally staged in 1949 as
Le Combat for Roland
Petit's Ballets de Paris. Dollar
also created a ballet for the
Ford Motor Company's
pavilion at the New York
World's Fair of 1940. He
worked with ballet companies
in Brazil, Japan, and Monte
Carlo and founded a national
ballet company in
Iran.
William Dollar died in
1986. |
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