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Adams, Diana

Adams, Diana

(1926–93) ballet dancer; born in Stanton, Va. She studied with Edward Canton and Anthony Tudor and appeared in two Broadway musicals before she joined the Ballet Theatre in 1943. There she performed featured roles in several ballets. She joined the New York City Ballet in 1950 where she created numerous roles until her retirement in the mid-1960s.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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Middle row: Margaret Van Dagens, Amy Adams, Diana Parker, Susan Jacobs, Jennifer Sheeler, Linda Manahan, Joan McGeough.
With: Gerry Adams, Diana Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jon Lee Anderson, Jim Fitzpatrick, Tom Morello.
Erskine Childers, Edward Hilton-Young, Bryan Adams, Diana Adams, a visiting American who'd just read Jacob's Room, and Pamela both old and young.
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