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DIED. Ruthanna Boris, 88, wry dancer-choreographer who in the '40s became the first American ballerina to earn top billing with the vaunted Ballet Russe; in El Cerrito, Calif. Famous for her versatility--she shone equally in Swan Lake and Frankie and Johnny--she directed pieces like 1947's Cirque de Deux, a spoof that likened ballet dancers to circus performers...
...involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation" and cites four violations of the state's Revised Rules of Professional Conduct. Among the 41 public statements cited by the bar is one alleging that Nifong knew was not credible: "I would not be surprised if condoms were used. Probably an exotic dancer would not be your first choice for unprotected sex," Nifong said publicly, even after the accuser's own hospital exam statement was taken, in which she said her attackers did not use condoms...
DIED. Florence Tullis, 70, former go-go dancer and biker mother of the severely disfigured Rocky Dennis, whose life was dramatized in the award-winning 1985 film Mask; of an infection following a motorcycle accident; in Montebello, Calif. As portrayed by Cher, Tullis dismissed predictions that Rocky--whose skull deformity grossly enlarged his face--would not live past age 7 and fought teachers who discouraged him from attending public school. Rocky died at 16, nine years before Tullis lost her elder son, Joshua, to AIDS. "You don't understand," she said to people who pitied her. "My kids lived every...
Adrienne Sharp’s “White Swan, Black Swan,” opens with an image capturing the sublimity of the dancer’s body in motion. New York City Ballet (NYCB) dancer Joanna is watching from the wings as her boyfriend Ridley performs a pas de deux from George Balanchine’s “Jewels...
...know what dance means for the dancer that we ogle? The answer offered by Sharp’s debut collection of 12 interlocking short stories is a resounding...