Amanda McKerrow (born 1964) is an American ballet dancer. She was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) where she currently teaches. In 1981 she became the first American to win a gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition when she was 17 years old.
4-775: McKerrow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amanda McKerrow (born 1964), American ballet dancer Bob McKerrow (born 1948), New Zealand humanitarian and writer Clarence McKerrow (1877–1959), Canadian lacrosse player James McKerrow (1834–1919), New Zealand astronomer and surveyor Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872–1940), British bibliographer and Shakespearean scholar Shirley McKerrow (born 1933), Australian politician William McKerrow (1803-1878), Scottish-born, Manchester-based Presbyterian minister, radical activist and newspaper co-founder William Stuart McKerrow (1922–2004), British geologist and palaeontologist See also [ edit ] Lake McKerrow ,
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12-853: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Amanda McKerrow McKerrow was born in Albuquerque , New Mexico , the youngest child of a retired administrator at the National Institutes of Health. Her mother was a stay-at-home mom. She began taking ballet lessons at age seven and five years later won a scholarship to the Metropolitan Academy of Ballet in Bethesda, Maryland . After her sophomore year she dropped out of high school and joined The Washington Ballet (TWB). McKerrow danced with The Washington Ballet for two years from 1980 to 1982. She joined American Ballet Theatre under
16-451: The direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1982. She was appointed Soloist in 1983 and Principal Dancer in 1987. She retired from performing in 2005. In 2014 McKerrow began teaching and staging performances at ABT. She also teaches at Washington University and at dance festivals. In addition to her ballet career, she has appeared in several films: ‘’Variety and Virtuosity: American Ballet Theatre Now (1998),’’ ‘’American Ballet Theatre at
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