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Article: BALLET THEATRE BOSS STEPS DOWN
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- August 3, 2006
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Jenefer Davies, who guided Roanoke Ballet Theatre to the forefront
of the local dance scene, is stepping down as the ballet's executive
director to design a dance program for Washington and Lee University.
Davies, who dramatically increased the ballet's profile during her
11-year tenure, will retain the title of artistic director. She will
no longer run the school, however, and will work on the company's
upcoming productions only in an advisory capacity. Longtime RBT
dance instructor Unur Gunaajav will run the school.
Davies' departure follows by just five months the announcement
that longtime Southwest Virginia Ballet artistic director Terri Post
was moving with her husband to New York.
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