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Article: Ballet teachers to open new school: Unurbat Gunaajav and Nara Dondong, formerly of the Roanoke Ballet Theatre, will run the Virginia Ballet Academy.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2007
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Byline: Kevin Kittredge
Aug. 26--The world of Roanoke Valley ballet, which is nothing if not dynamic, is changing once again.
A year after Roanoke Ballet Theatre's longtime executive director, Jenefer Davies, moved to Lexington to develop a dance program at Washington and Lee University, the program is losing another leader. Unurbat Gunaajav, the Mongolian dancer who became ballet master and head of school when Davies departed, has left to open a school of his own.
The move leaves uncertain the fate of the ballet "Roanoke Primeval," scheduled to be performed at Roanoke's first arts festival in October. The original ballet about the origins of ...