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Article: Choo-San Goh's Legacy of Joy
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 1, 1987
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The passing of choreographer Choo-San Goh, who died at the age of
39 in New York Saturday, is a loss of incalculable magnitude.
Those of us in Washington who witnessed his artistic blossoming
over the past 11 years, in his role as resident choreographer and
associate artistic director of the Washington Ballet, have an
enormous legacy to be grateful for. And his works-34 ballets created
since 1973, 14 of them expressly for the Washington Ballet-will live
on and transmit his genius to posterity.
His life has been cut short, and the inspiration of his presence
and creative imagination, his love of dancers and dance, will be
missed in many quarters: by the dance world at large, deprived of ...