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Contra Costa Ballet Centre
Richard Cammack & Zola Dishong:
Artistic Directors
2040 North Broadway
Walnut Creek CA 94596
(925) 935-7984
email:click here
Contra Costa Ballet School is the School of the Contra Costa Ballet
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Copyright 2006 Contra Costa Ballet Foundation,
All rights reserved.
Contra Costa Ballet Foundation is a California Non-profit Corporation.
Last modified Sunday, October 18, 2009
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Zola Dishong has enjoyed an extensive career in dance as a performer and educator. At age fourteen she received one of the first Ford Foundation Scholarships to the San Francisco Ballet School, where she studied with Anatole Vilzak and Harold and Lew Christensen. At seventeen, Ms. Dishong became a member of the San Francisco Ballet and toured with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, on his first USA tour. After moving to New York, she joined American Ballet Theatre, where she performed soloist roles in most of their classical repertoire and toured throughout Europe, Japan and the USA.
After returning to San Francisco, Ms. Dishong was a principal dancer with Pacific Ballet and began her teaching career as head of the Ballet Department at San Francisco State University. In 1974 she joined the faculty of the San Francisco Ballet School, where she taught all levels for 13 years and helped to train many prominent dancers. Ms. Dishong has been recognized for her coaching skills, has taught a variety of master classes and has been called on to judge ballet competitions around the country.
For the last 20 years, Ms. Dishong has devoted herself to teaching and directing in the Contra Costa Ballet Centre. She is also the artistic director of the Contra Costa Ballet Company, where she has staged and coached the Petipa classics and Balanchine ballets. The Contra Costa Ballet Company is a pre-professional company of unusual stature - only a few youth groups of this quality exist in the United States today.
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