George Zoritch
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George Zoritch (born 1917) is a dancer born in Moscow. He joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1935 and toured with them in the United States after WWII. He appeared in a number of films, including Night and Day (1946) and Samson and Delilah (1949). He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.
In 1994 George Zoritch was among the first American dancers, choreographers and writers honored by being awarded the Vaslav Nikinksy Medal, sponsored by the Polish Artists Agency in Warsaw, for work in honor of Nijinsky. Other awardees were Gerald Arpino, Ann Barzel, Oleg Briansky, Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Illaria Ladre, Peter Ostwald, Richard Philp, Jennie Schulman, Mr. Turnbaugh, and Anatole Vilzak. [1]
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- ^ Awards to Americans in Honor of Nijinsky, New York Times, 26 November 1994 Accessed 15 November 2007
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