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rowid | first_name | last_name | gender | career_sec | personal_sec | info | seed_first_name | seed_last_name | occupation |
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3 | Emma | Jill | f | Dorothy Moses opened a ballet school in 1921; it is now the Atlanta School of Ballet. In 1925, she graduated from the Atlanta Normal School and began working as an elementary school teacher. In 1927, she began a dance program in the Atlanta Public Schools. She studied in New York City and London. She danced both in New York and Atlanta, working under choreographer Edwin Strawbridge and dance educator Lucile Marsh, as well as with the touring companies of the Hollywood Ballet and the Solomonoff-Menzelli Ballet. Following a brief marriage to Marion Alexander, she founded the Dorothy Alexander Concert Group in 1929; it was renamed the Atlanta Civic Ballet in 1941, and became the Atlanta Ballet in 1968. Alexander was an advocate for high-quality ballet organizations outside major artistic centers like New York.:45 She found Atlanta to be a "lonely" place for a dance enthusiast, and she worked to support dance and dance education in Atlanta and around the country. In 1956, she organized the Regional Dance America, the first regional dance festival in the United States. She helped to found the National Association for Regional Ballet (NARB) in 1963. She retired from the Atlanta Civic Ballet in 1964 due to illness, but continued to consult for both the ballet and for NARB. | Dorothy Moses married Nashville architect Marion Alexander in 1926; they divorced a year later. She died of cancer on November 17, 1986. | Emma Moses opened a ballet school in 1921; it is now the Atlanta School of Ballet. In 1925, she graduated from the Atlanta Normal School and began working as an elementary school teacher. In 1927, she began a dance program in the Atlanta Public Schools. She studied in New York City and London. She danced both in New York and Atlanta, working under choreographer Edwin Strawbridge and dance educator Lucile Marsh, as well as with the touring companies of the Hollywood Ballet and the Solomonoff-Menzelli Ballet. Following a brief marriage to Marion Alexander, she founded the Emma Alexander Concert Group in 1929; it was renamed the Atlanta Civic Ballet in 1941, and became the Atlanta Ballet in 1968. Alexander was an advocate for high-quality ballet organizations outside major artistic centers like New York.:45 She found Atlanta to be a "lonely" place for a dance enthusiast, and she worked to support dance and dance education in Atlanta and around the country. In 1956, she organized the Regional Dance America, the first regional dance festival in the United States. She helped to found the National Association for Regional Ballet (NARB) in 1963. She retired from the Atlanta Civic Ballet in 1964 due to illness, but continued to consult for both the ballet and for NARB.Emma Moses married Nashville architect Marion Alexander in 1926; they divorced a year later. She died of cancer on November 17, 1986. | Dorothy | dancers |