Nina Youshkevitch was a ballet dancer, born in 1920 in Odesa, who died in 1998.
Biography
Nina Semyonovna Youshkevitch (7 December 1920 – 3 November 1998) was a Franco-Russian ballet dancer and teacher. After a notable dancing career an injury forced her retirement, and she became a prominent ballet teacher and choreographer.
From 1978 until shortly before her death, she ran her own school, the Nina Youshkevitch Ballet Workshop in New York City.
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