Ruthanna Boris

Ruthanna Boris
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Nutcracker 1940
Born	March 18, 1919 (1919-03-18) New York, New York, U.S.
Died	January 5, 2007 (2007-01-06) (aged 87)
Occupation	Ballerina

Ruthanna Boris (March 18, 1919 – January 5, 2007) was the first American Ballerina to star with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo troupes of the 1940s. She was born in Brooklyn. She was among the first students at George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein’s School of American Ballet when it opened in 1934. As a choreographer her ballets Cirque de Deux and Cakewalk, are often revived.^[1] She died in El Cerrito, California and her papers are held at Houghton Library, Harvard University.