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Dancer History Picture for Ruthanna Boris - Spanish Dancer

Stage Name

Birth Name

Ruthanna Boris n/a
Ruthanne Boris  

   Ruthanna Boris was a successful English Ballet, Spanish Dancer, Choreographer, Costume Designer and Performer. Performed in 1935 Broadway Musical 'Alma Mater' with Tamara Geva, Eugene Loring, Annabelle Lyon and George Balanchine as choreographer.

   In 1937 performed along with Paul Haakon in 'Hooray for What'. In 1943 Ruthanna and Alexis Dolinoff choreographed 'The Student Prince' which featured the famous but aging Ann Pennington. 1956 had Ruthanna Boris doing the choreography for 'Le Jazz Hot' and 'Pasticcio' (plus designing those costumes) and 'Roundelay', 'The Comedians', 'Cirque de deux' and 'The Wanderling'. In her later years Ruthanna has undergone' Hip Replacement Surgery' three times and still danced.

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Spouse

Offspring

England? - n/a n/a
                       
 

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Ballet Frederic Franklin n/a
Cakewalk            
Spanish Dances            
 
Ballets

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Stage

1946 - Grand Pas Glazunov (dancer) Adlephi Theatre (1935) 1935 - Alma Mater
1948 - Serenade (dancer) Broadway Theatre (1943) 1937 - Hooray For What
1951 - Cakewalk (Chor) Mark Hellinger Theatre (1951) 1943 - The Student Prince
1951 - Two on the Isle (Dog Show) Winter Garden Theatre (1937)      
$1952 A Candle for St. Jude (TV)            
1952 - Kaleidoscope (Chor)            
1953 - Will O' The Wisp (Chor)            
1956 - Pasticcio (Chor)            
Cirque de Deux            
Lady Into Fox            
Quelques Fleurs            
 

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n/a $1952 - Westinghouse Studio One n/a
                 
                 
NOTE:
July 23, 2005
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