George de la Peña
American dancer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George de la Peña is an American ballet dancer, musical theatre performer, choreographer, actor, and teacher. He was born in 1955 in New York City, New York. Originally trained as a concert pianist, de la Peña switched to ballet while studying at the High School for the Performing Arts in New York City. He graduated from George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet. He joined American Ballet Theatre in the 1970s, rapidly rising to soloist. While at ABT, de la Peña danced in works choreographed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Agnes de Mille, Kenneth MacMillan, and Jerome Robbins. By 1985, de la Peña and his then-wife, ballerina Rebecca Wright had both left ABT and moved to California. He and Ms. Wright can be seen in Baryshnikov's production of The Nutcracker on television and on DVD. De la Peña was married to Rebecca Wright from 1984 to 2006. They had two children. Rebecca Wright died from cancer in 2006.
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