Weisberger, Barbara (c. 1926–)
Weisberger, Barbara (c. 1926–)
American ballet dancer and company administrator. Born Barbara Linshen, c. 1926, in Brooklyn, NY.
As a child, trained in Brooklyn with Marian Lehman; was 1st child admitted into Balanchine's School of American Ballet (c. 1934); trained with Catherine Littlefield in Philadelphia; ran own small company and school in Wilkes-Barre, PA (late 1940s); founded School of Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia (1962) and served as its artistic director; considered unsurpassed in her efforts and achievements to further development of ballet in US.
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