Background
Vine, Nathalie Christian Le was born on July 21, 1929 in Las Animas, Colorado, United States. Daughter of Fleming Vincent and Juanita J. (Jobe) Christian.
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Vine, Nathalie Christian Le was born on July 21, 1929 in Las Animas, Colorado, United States. Daughter of Fleming Vincent and Juanita J. (Jobe) Christian.
Bachelor in Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1958. Student, Royal Ballet School, London, 1959—1960. Student with Michel Panaieff, Los Angeles, 1945—1948.
Student with Mia Slavenska, Los Angeles, 1948—1953. Student with Rozelle Frey, Los Angeles.
Teacher Wilcoxon School Dance, Los Angeles, 1946—1948, Sutro-Seyler Studio, Los Angeles, 1949—1951, Brown Gables Conservatory of the Arts, Los Angeles, 1952—1961, Ecole de Danse, Cameroun, 1961—1962, Dawn Quist School Dance, Accra Ghana, 1969—1970. Private teacher ballet and dance St. Louis, 1963—1967. Member faculty dance Washington University, St. Louis, 1967—1969, 1970—1971.
Founder, director Metropolitan Ballet St. Louis, 1974—1989. Founder, principal teacher, artistic director The Ballet Conservatory, St. Louis, since 1990. Principal teacher Le Vine Academy of Ballet, St. Louis, 1964—1986, guest teacher master classes, since 1971, University Hawaii, South Hold Dance Theater, South Bend, Indiana, M. Tracy School Ballet, Kailua, Hawaii, Evansville Dance Theater, South Bend.
Co-artistic director St. Louis Dance Theater, 1966—1972, choreographer, 1966—1972. Founder, artistic director Metropolitan Ballet of St. Louis, 1974—1987, director, principal teacher, 1987—1989. Participant planning dance performances St. Louis, since 1964.
Consultant Phelps County Dance Association, 1978—1979, Rolla (Missouri) Board of Parks and Recreation, 1978—1979. Guest teacher various dance schools and theaters, since 1964. Soloist Ballet de Los Angeles, 1948—1949, Radio City Music Hall, New York City, 1952—1953.
Appeared in various television and stage productions Los Angeles, 1946—1948, Santa Monica, 1945—1950, Laguna Beach, 1946—1951. Appeared Greatest Show on Earth Other Motion Pictures, 1950—1952.
Member of National Society Arts & Letters, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Victor Theodore Le Vine, July 19, 1958. Children: Theodore Vincent, Nicole Jeanette Le Vine Vizcara.