{"id":8081,"date":"2020-12-28T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=8081"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:26","slug":"lavinia-williams-orbit-virginia-lee-the-arts-students-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/28\/lavinia-williams-orbit-virginia-lee-the-arts-students-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavinia Williams’ Orbit: Virginia Lee & The Arts Students League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lavinia Williams and Virginia Lee<\/h2>\n
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Click above to view Virginia Lee in Lavinia Williams Orbit<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Williams family lived in New York through Lavinia\u2019s teenage years, where she attended Washington Irving High School and then received a scholarship from Virginia Lee to attend the Arts Students League. Williams studied at the Arts Students League until she was 20 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n

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More about Virginia Lee<\/h2>\n
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Brochure for Ballet Arts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1937, Japanese dancer, teacher, and choreographer Yeichi Nimura<\/a> and Virginia Lee established The Nimura Studio at “61” Carnegie Hall in 1937, renaming it Ballet Arts when they co-founded the school in 1940. I<\/span>t is the oldest continuously operating dance school in NYC after the School of American Ballet (which opened 3 years earlier). From its time at Studio 61 in Carnegie Hall, the school has hosted many important dance pioneers, including the Isadora Duncan Dancers, Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis, and was an important rehearsal space for artists such as Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, and Agnes DeMille.”\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n