Audrée Estey

Audrée Phipps Estey
Born	Audrée Phipps January 7, 1910
Died	June 6, 2002 (aged 92) Deer Isle, Maine
Known for	American Repertory Ballet

Audrée Phipps Estey (January 7, 1910 - June 6, 2002), known as "New Jersey's First Lady of Dance", was the founder of the Princeton Ballet Society and the American Repertory Ballet.^[1][2]

Biography

She was born on January 7, 1910 as Audrée Phipps. She married and had a son, Lawrence M. Estey and a daughter, Carol Estey.^[3] In 1954 she founded the Princeton Ballet Society. In 1963 she founded the American Repertory Ballet. She died on June 6, 2002 in Deer Isle, Maine.^[4]

References

1. "Keeping Up Tradition, Sugar Plums and All". New York Times. November 19, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-19. That will include more Victorian touches, in keeping with the vision of the company’s founder, Audrée Estey, who directed its first “Nutcracker,” in 1963. It will also feature new choreography in the second act and the snow scene. ...
2. "Princeton to See Two 'Sleeping Beauties'". New York Times. May 22, 1977. Retrieved 2010-12-19. Dancing the role of the enchanted Princess Aurora, Karen Russo, a 16-year-old South Brunswick High School student, will age 200 years next Saturday. She will awaken not once, but twice, from 100-year naps as the star of a double performance of 'The Sleeping Beauty.' ... that is not the philosophy of the Princeton group or of its energetic director, Audree Estey, sometimes known as 'New Jersey's First Lady of Dance.' ...
3. "Sarah Estey, William Otto". New York Times. August 18, 2002. Retrieved 2010-12-19. She is the daughter of Gretta P. Estey and the Rev. Lawrence M. Estey of Stonington. Her father is the vicar of St. Brendan the Navigator Episcopal Church there, and her mother is the capital campaign director for the Jackson Laboratory, a mammalian research organization, in Bar Harbor, Me. The bride's paternal grandmother, Audree Estey, founded the company in Princeton, N.J., that is now known as the American Repertory Ballet, and Carol Estey, her aunt, was a Broadway dancer and is now an artistic director of Opera House Arts.
4. "Former dancer, actress founded ballet society". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. June 16, 2002. Retrieved 2010-12-19. Audree Phipps Estey, a former dancer and actress who founded Princeton Ballet Society and had been on the board of Sarasota Ballet of Florida, died June 6, 2002, in Deer Island [sic], Maine. She was 92. "She was so interested in young people,"said Jennifer Gemmeke, director of education of the Sarasota Ballet. "She started our Dance Next Generation program for economically deprived children which was based on the school she started in Princeton and set