Harris, Joan (1920–)
Harris, Joan (1920–)
English ballet dancer and teacher. Born Mar 26, 1920, in London, England.
Danced with Anglo-Polish Ballet for1 season (1941); performed with International Ballet for 4 years, dancing featured roles in 19th-century classics; joined Sadler's Wells (1945), where she danced in The Catch (1946), The Gods Go-a-Begging and The Sleeping Beauty, among others; worked on many ballet films (1950s) as camera assistant and ballet master including Red Shoes (1948) and Tales of Hoffmann; appeared in such films as The Killing Fields (1984) and The Manhattan Project (1986), and worked on production of Silent Scream (1980).
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