CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS.In the September issue of Presstime press·time n. The time at which a publication, especially a newspaper, is submitted for printing. News, Pacific Northwest Ballet The Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company and based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. Director of Outreach Phillip M. Otto was misidentified in a photograph as Brad Phillips. And Ballets Russes Ballets Russes: see Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich. Ballets Russes Ballet company founded in Paris in 1909 by Sergey Diaghilev. Considered the source of modern ballet, the company employed the most outstanding creative talent of the period. Celebration organizers Douglas Turnbaugh and Olga Guardia de Smoak have informed us that members of the reunion commitee were inadvertently ommitted in the September article about the Ballets Russes. They are: co-chairs Terry de Mari and Barbara Arms McGinnis, Gwen Barker Hersh, Yvonne Craig Yvonne Joyce Craig (born May 16, 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois) is an American actress best known as Batgirl from the 1960s TV series Batman. Biography Yvonne Craig was originally trained to be a ballet dancer, and was a member of the corps de ballet of the Aldrich and Audrey Ross. Also, in the October issue, a photograph of the Merce Cunningham troupe on page 52 misidentified the dancers and the work performed, which was Biped. The photograph was courtesy of Cal Performances. |
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