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Article: BALLET TEACHERS TO OPEN NEW SCHOOL
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- August 26, 2007
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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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