Audrée Phipps Estey | |
Birth Name: | Audrée Phipps |
Birth Date: | 7 January 1910 |
Birth Place: | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Death Place: | Deer Isle, Maine |
Known For: | American Repertory Ballet |
Audrée Phipps Estey (January 7, 1910 – June 6, 2002), known as "New Jersey's First Lady of Dance", was an American dancer who founded the Princeton Ballet Society and the American Repertory Ballet.[1] [2]
Estey was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on January 7, 1910, as Audrée Phipps. She married and had a son, Lawrence M. Estey and a daughter, Carol Estey.[3] In 1954 she founded the Princeton Ballet Society. In 1963 she founded the American Repertory Ballet. She died on June 6, 2002, in Deer Isle, Maine.[4]