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Dusty Button
Dusty Button (born June 6, 1989) is an American ballet dancer. She was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. At age sixteen, she moved to New York to train at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre. After that, she was invited to the ABT II company where she performed major roles. In 2006, she was awarded the Bronze Finalist Medal at the Youth America Grand Prix. She later joined the Royal Ballet School, in 2008 where she also performed professional roles at the Royal Opera House. She joined the Boston Ballet corps de ballet in 2012, was promoted to soloist in 2013 and principal in 2014. A federal lawsuit in 2021 accuses Button of federal sex trafficking and forced labor violations. Early life Dusty Button was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on June 6, 1989. Button began dancing at age 7, taking classes in tap, jazz, hip hop and ballet. Button competed in dance competitions across the United States and, at the age of 13, spent a week at T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrtle Beach
Myrtle Beach is a resort city on the east coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina. It is located in the center of a long and continuous stretch of beach known as "The Grand Strand" in the northeastern part of the state. Its year-round population was 35,682 as of the 2020 census. Myrtle Beach is one of the major centers of tourism in South Carolina and the United States. The city's warm subtropical climate, miles of beaches, 86 golf courses, and 1,800 restaurants attract over 20 million visitors each year, making Myrtle Beach one of the most visited destinations in the country. Located along the historic King's Highway (modern U.S. Route 17), the region was once home to the Waccamaw people. During the colonial period, the Whither family settled in the area, and a prominent local waterway, Wither's Swash, is named in their honor. Originally called alternately "New Town" or "Withers", the area was targeted for development as a resort community by Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pointe Magazine
''Pointe'' is an international magazine aimed at ballet dancers and students. Releasing four times a year, ''Pointe'' covers international news on company debuts, competition results, and rising stars. Pointe also contains reviews, company profiles, a calendar of events, ballet-oriented shopping guides, and much other information regarding the dance world. Virginia Johnson, the artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem, was formerly ''Pointe'' editor-in-chief from its creation until 2009. Macfadden Performing Arts Media acquired ''Pointe'' with the purchase of Lifestyle Media, Inc. in 2006. Macfadden's dance magazines were sold to Frederic M. Seegal, an investment banker with the Peter J. Solomon Company Solomon Partners, previously known as PJ Solomon, is an independently operated American investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City. Solomon Partners advises on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restruc ..., in 2016. Inside the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School Alumni
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Dancers From South Carolina
Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin. An important distinction is to be drawn between the contexts of theatrical and participatory dance, although these two categories are not always completely separate; both may have special functions, whether social, ceremonial, competitive, erotic, martial, or sacred/ liturgical. Other forms of human movement are sometimes said to have a dance-like quality, including martial arts, gymnastics, cheerleading, figure skating, synchronized swimming, marching bands, and many other forms of athletics. There are many professional athletes like, professional football players and soccer players, who take dance classes to help with their skills. To be more specific professional athlete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Ballet Principal Dancers
The Boston Ballet is an American professional classical ballet company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams and Sydney Leonard, and was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. It has been led by Violette Verdy (1980–1984), Bruce Marks (1985–1997), and Anna-Marie Holmes (1997–2000). Mikko Nissinen was appointed artistic director in September 2001. History 1956-1979 In 1956, E. Virginia Williams moved her ballet school from a studio in Back Bay to 186 Massachusetts Avenue, across from the Loew's State Theatre in Boston. At this point, the school offered classes starting at a children's level all the way to a professional division. In 1958, out of her Boston School of Ballet (which was sometimes called The New England School of Ballet), E. Virginia Williams formed a small dance group named The New England Civic Ballet. The group primarily performed at small local festivals and venues around New England. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Ballerinas
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Living People
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1989 Births
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Sigrid McCawley
Sigrid McCawley is an American attorney who is known for representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein such as Virginia Giuffre and others in several civil cases against their abusers. McCawley is one of the co-managing partners of Boies Schiller Flexner, a firm where she has worked for more than 20 years. As part of the firm, she has represented clients in several notable cases including class action suits against Amway and Halliburton. Before joining Boies Schiller Flexner, McCawley practiced law in Washington, D.C., with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and clerked for U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez Jr. in the Southern District of Florida. Early life and education Sigrid McCawley was born in Upstate New York. She attended the University of Florida, where she graduated in 1994 with a B.A. in history. In 1997, she graduated with a J.D from the University of Florida's Levin College of Law. Career After law school, McCawley had a clerkship with Judge Jose Gonzalez Jr. at the U.S. Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daryl Katz
Daryl Allan Katz (born May 31, 1961) is a Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Katz is founder and chairman of the Katz Group of Companies, one of Canada's largest privately-owned enterprises, with pharmacy, sports & entertainment, and real estate development businesses. Katz Group owns the Edmonton Oilers, and led the development of Rogers Place and the Ice District. Katz is a former lawyer, and resides in Edmonton. Early life Daryl Katz was born in 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta. His father was a pharmacist who founded Value Drug Mart in Edmonton in the 1970s. Katz attended the Jewish day school, the Edmonton Talmud Torah during his elementary years and then graduated from Jasper Place High School. He then attended the University of Alberta, graduating with an arts degree in 1982 and with a law degree in 1985. Pharmacy business After school, he worked for a time at the law firm, Shoctor, Mousseau and Starkman, and then started his own practice focusing on corpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Randazza
Marc J. Randazza (born November 26, 1969) is an American First Amendment attorney and a commentator on Infowars and CNN on legal matters. Early life and education Randazza was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Gloucester High School in 1987. Randazza attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he majored in journalism. In 1996, Randazza was inspired to attend law school by the film ''The People vs. Larry Flynt''. He attended Georgetown University Law Center and graduated in 2000. During law school, he interned for Denise Johnson of the Vermont Supreme Court. He continued his First Amendment education by attending the University of Florida, where he earned a master's degree in communications, writing his thesis on vote pairing, which was cited by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Career Randazza is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts (2002), Florida (2003), California (2010), Arizona (2010), and Nevada (2012). Randazza's first case was rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sage Humphries
Sage Humphries (born October 3, 1997) is an American model, singer-songwriter, and dancer with the Boston Ballet. Ballet Humphries started ballet at age four in Orange County, California. At age 12, Humphries attended the School of American Ballet Summer Course in New York for the first time and returned the following two summers. At 14, she trained under Dmitri Kulev in Orange County. In 2012, Humphries received positive reviews of her performances in ''Giselle'' and ''The Sleeping Beauty'' at the Carreno Dance Festival in Sarasota, Florida. While preparing for the Youth America Grand Prix competition, Humphries appeared in the ''Dance School Diaries'' docuseries. In 2015, she was a Denver Youth Grand Prix winner at the Youth American Grand Prix Denver Semi-Finals. That summer, she attended the American Ballet Theatre in New York on full scholarship, where she trained with Ariel Serrano and Ramona De Saa, director of the Cuban National Ballet School. While training with Kul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
