Article: BALLET TEACHERS TO OPEN NEW SCHOOL

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 American Indian culture was conceived by Gunaajav and festival manager Rick ...

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