Mr Hampson is a former professional dancer who trained at the Royal Ballet School.
He and his wife of 56 years have given millions to causes including the National Ballet School of Canada and National Gallery of Canada.
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She has been personally coached by the Bristol Russian Ballet School, which is where she discovered her love for the Russian method of training.
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Kostritzky burnished her reputation for having a gift with children at the School of American Ballet, the in-house school for the New York City Ballet, where she taught more than 300 students in 18 years.
Just being chosen will help the Iowa Homeless Youth Centers, the New Ballet Ensemble and School in Memphis, and Community Kitchens of Birmingham.
"She'd compare a step to a flower, or take off her necklace and say how all the beads have to be perfectly put together to form the whole (dance) variation, " said Lola Cooper, a Carolina Ballet dancer who studied with Kostritzky at the School of American Ballet.
In contrast to these companies, New York City Ballet tends to fill its ranks with dancers who studied at its Manhattan-based feeder, the School of American Ballet, which trains dancers to handle the demands of choreography by George Balanchine.
In late 2006 he started to work at Kampala Ballet and Modern Dance School's new cafe and the following year joined a barista training course held by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority.
Chelsea also sits on the boards of the School of American Ballet, Common Sense Media and the Weill Cornell Medical College.
School of American Ballet alum Nick Smirnov had just left his first job when he auditioned for a small dance company in Florida and was offered a job on the spot.
Since leaving the School of American Ballet in 2009, Kostritzky divides her time between the United States and Russia, where she's a guest teacher and coach for Siberia's Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre.
After high school, she joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1942, where she came to the attention of Mr. Balanchine.
There, she was taught by the choreographer Bronislava Nijinska, the sister of the legendary dancer Nijinsky, and learned ballet in the style of the Russian school.
While still at school, she persuaded a Los Angeles ballet company to give her a job as a dress designer.
Pilika's body was displayed at the School of Fine Arts, where she had taught ballet.
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