Cobos, Antonia (c. 1920–)
Cobos, Antonia (c. 1920–)
American concert dancer and ballet choreographer. Born Phyllis Nahle, c. 1920 in New York, NY.
Studied classical Spanish dance forms in Barcelona, Spain; made 1st solo appearance in concert recital in Paris, where she performed Spectral Minuet, among others (1938); created 3 widely acclaimed works: The Mute Wife (1944), Madroñas (1948) and The Mikado (1954); continued to give recitals of Spanish dance.
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