Choreographer

Clark Tippet

American choreographer

Born 1954 · ParsonsDied 1992United States

Clark Tippet was an American choreographer, born in 1954 in Parsons, who died in 1992.

Biography

Clark Tippet (October 5, 1954, in Parsons, Kansas – January 28, 1992) was an American ballet dancer and choreographer. He was a member of the American Ballet Theatre company in New York City. Among other roles, he was featured as the male Spanish dancer in Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. The production was first televised in 1977.

Tippet died of HIV/AIDS on January 28, 1992, in Parsons, aged 37.

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Contemporaries

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