{"id":64106,"date":"2023-01-23T15:35:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=64106"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:35:39","slug":"ruth-ann-koesun-versatile-ballet-theater-dancer-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64106","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Ann Koesun, Versatile Ballet Theater Dancer, Dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth Ann Koesun, Versatile Ballet Theater Dancer, Dies at 89<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2018-02-14<\/p>\n

Anna Kisselgoff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Ruth Ann Koesun with John Kriza<\/a> in Michael Kidd<\/a>\u2019s \u201cOn Stage!\u201d in 1947.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ruth Ann Koesun, a principal dancer<\/a> in American Ballet Theater<\/a> who epitomized the company\u2019s early eclectic profile by excelling in roles that ranged from Billy the Kid\u2019s Mexican sweetheart to the \u201cBluebird\u201d pas de deux<\/a> from \u201cThe Sleeping Beauty,\u201d died on Feb. 1 in Chicago<\/a>. She was 89.<\/p>\n

Her death was confirmed by her goddaughter, Ellen Coghlan.<\/p>\n

Because of her lyrical style in ballets like \u201cLes Sylphides,\u201d Ms. Koesun was often cast as a Romantic ballerina. But she could also show dramatic ferocity, as the evil antiheroine Ate in Antony Tudor\u2019s<\/a> \u201cUndertow,\u201d which depicts a young murderer\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

Contemporary ballet makers favored her. In 1950, Herbert Ross<\/a>, a new choreographer and future film director, cast her in his \u201cCaprichos,\u201d based on Goya\u2019s<\/a> etchings. She portrayed a dead woman who is tossed around by her partner in choreographed movements that suggested she was inert…<\/p>\n

…Ruth Ann Koesun was born on May 15, 1928, in Chicago to Dr. Paul Z. Koesun, a Chinese physician in Chicago\u2019s Chinatown<\/a>, and the former Mary Mondulick, who was of Russian descent…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruth Ann Koesun, a principal dancer in American Ballet Theater who epitomized the company\u2019s early eclectic profile by excelling in roles that ranged from Billy the Kid\u2019s Mexican sweetheart to the \u201cBluebird\u201d pas de deux from \u201cThe Sleeping Beauty,\u201d died on Feb. 1 in Chicago. She was 89.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,1245,8,20],"tags":[20334,33721,19921,6725,2640,33722,2327],"class_list":["post-64106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-american-ballet-theater","tag-anna-kisselgoff","tag-ballet","tag-dance","tag-new-york-times","tag-ruth-ann-koesun","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64107,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64106\/revisions\/64107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}