John Barker was a ballet dancer and dancer, born in 1929 in Oak Park, who died in 2020.
Biography
John Barker was an American dancer, ballet teacher and translator. He was a leading authority in the West on the Soviet method of teaching classical dance, and the first American to be allowed to teach the method in Russia. He was the official translator, into English, of the textbook of the Leningrad Choreographic School (the Vaganova Academy).
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