Director of Hispanic Ballet Company Will Step Down
October 9, 2008
Tina Ramirez, the leader of one of the country’s most prominent Hispanic dance organizations, is leaving her position next June after almost 40 years, reports The New York Times.
Ms. Ramirez, the artistic director of Ballet Hispanico, whom unconfirmed reports place at about 80 years of age, resisted labeling her departure as a retirement. She started the company in 1970, she says, because at the time few companies included young Hispanic dancers.
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