Nelson Barclift was an American choreographer, born in 1917 in Hopewell, who died in 1993.
Biography
Edgar Nelson Barclift (September 14, 1917 – March 11, 1993) was an American choreographer and dancer. As a member of the United States Army's Theatre Section during the Second World War, he was the co-choreographer and principal dancer of Irving Berlin's This Is The Army (1942). He choreographed the musical Around the World (1946). He became the romantic partner of the composer and songwriter Cole Porter in the early 1940s.
Contemporaries
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Ballerina and choreographer (1917-2002)
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ballet dancer and teacher (1917–2000)
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