Diana White was born in Chicago, Illinois, US, started dancing at age four and joined the Lyric Opera of Chicago Ballet at age fourteen. When she was sixteen, George Balanchine offered her a School of American Ballet scholarship and invited her to join the New York City Ballet one year later. During her twenty years performing, she danced corps de ballet, soloist and principal roles in over fifty Balanchine ballets and in twenty by Jerome Robbins. As a repetiteur, she has staged the works of both masters on major ballet companies and schools on six continents.
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