Peggy Willis-Aarnio | |
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Born | Margaret Eileen Willis January 12, 1948 Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
Died | January 9, 2016 Panama City, Florida, U.S. | (aged 67)
Education | Texas Christian University (BFA, MFA) |
Occupation(s) | Choreographer, ballet teacher, author, historian of ballet |
Peggy Willis-Aarnio (January 12, 1948 – January 9, 2016) was an American choreographer, historian, author and teacher of classical ballet. She was a professional dancer in the early 1970s with the Fort Worth Ballet in Fort Worth, Texas.[1] She was the first American to be sanctioned as a "Certified Practitioner and Teacher of the Teaching Method of Classical Ballet" by the Vaganova Academy in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[1][2][3]