LC control no. | n 97873053 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Lynne, Gillian |
Variant(s) | Lynn, Gillian Pyrke, Gillian Barbara |
Birth date | 1926-02-20 |
Death date | 2018-07-01 |
Place of birth | Bromley (London, England) |
Place of death | London (England) |
Profession or occupation | Choreographers Ballet dancers |
Special note | Choreographer. Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection. |
Found in | NYPL Dict. Cat. of the Dance Coll., 1974- Cats [VR] c1998: opening credits (musical staging and choreography by Gillian Lynne) Internet movie database, Jan. 31, 2000 (Gillian Lynne, actress, choreographer) Los Angeles Times, Nov. 3, 1998, in Lexis-Nexis, Jan. 31, 2000 (Gillian Lynne, Royal Ballet) A dancer in wartime : one girl's journey from the Blitz to Sadler's Wells, 2011 t.p. (Gillian Lynne) jkt. (b. Bromley, Kent, 1926) New York times WWW site, viewed July 5, 2018 (in obituary published July 2: Gillian Lynne; b. Gillian Barbara Pyrke, Feb. 20, 1926, Bromley, Kent; given the surname Lynne at 15 by Molly Lake, artistic director of the Ballet Guild; d. Sunday [July 1, 2018], London, aged 92; renowned British ballerina who, after turning to choreography, created the sinuous dances in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, which became the longest-running musical in London's West End and on Broadway) |