Ruth Pryor was an American ballet dancer, born in 1906 in Chicago, who died in 2001.
Biography
Ruth Pryor (1906-2001) was a Chicago ballet dancer and instructor, and the first American ballerina to dance the role of the Swan Queen in Swan Lake, in 1930. She was known for "her feat of whirling thirty-six times a minute on her toes," according to the Purple Parrot of Northwestern University.
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Contemporaries
Elvera Sanchez
American dancer (1905–2000)
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Nicole Maxwell
American medicinal plant researcher and ethnobotanist (1905/6 - 1998)
Alexandros Iolas
American art collector (1908-1987)
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Dorothie Littlefield
American ballet dancer (1912-1953)
Igor Youskevitch
ballet dancer (1912–1994)
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Vincenzo Celli
Italian ballet dancer (1900–1988)
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Annabelle Lyon
ballet dancer
Joan McCracken
American dancer and actress (1917–1961)
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