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rjw2

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  • Connection to/interest in ballet** (Please describe. Examples: fan, teacher, dancer, writer, avid balletgoer)
    Best friend of dancer 34 years
  • City**
    Los Angeles
  • State (US only)**, Country (Outside US only)**
    California
  1. In addition to what has been posted here, Dick had a long and successful career after leaving NYCB. He first formed a cabaret act, The Cabots, with Frank Sabella and Marion Saunders appearing throughout the United States at such venues as the Palmer House in Chicago and Bill Miller's Rivera in New York as well as appearing twice nightly for over a year at the Lido in Paris. Next came the move to Hollywood and television choreography as has been mentioned. In addition to choreography he was often called upon to appear with stars of the programs including Juliet Prouse and Cyd Charisse. He retired at his home in Hollywood but stayed in contact with not just Yvonne Mounsey (above) but Tatiana Riabouchinska, Nick Magallanes, Richard Thomas, Nancy Norman Lassalle, Paula Lloyd, Natalia Claire (for whom he taught classes at her school and staged ballets for her performances) and especially Roy Tobias and Fernand Nault, who often visited from Korea and Canada respectively as house guests.
  2. The link to Dick's obituary in the Los Angeles Times is: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/o...p;pid=130699407
  3. The photo was one of a set taken by George Platt Lynes
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