Derman, Vergie (1942–)
Derman, Vergie (1942–)
South African ballet dancer. Born Sept 18, 1942, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Trained with Arnold Dover in South Africa before attending Royal Ballet School in London; danced with Royal Ballet throughout career, appearing in classical repertory works that include The Sleeping Beauty, and also in numerous contem-porary works such as Kenneth Macmillan's Valses nobles et sentimentals (1966), Anastasia and Elite Syncopations (1974), Frederick Ashton's The Dream (1964), Glen Tetley's Field Figures (1971), and more; performed briefly with Opera Ballet in Berlin (1966–67).
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