Her Students Include
- Alicia Alonso, Cuban Prima Ballerina Assoluta and founder of the Cuban National Ballet
- Erik Bruhn, former Principal of the Royal Danish Ballet
- Dame Margot Fonteyn, English Prima Ballerina Assoluta of The Royal Ballet
- Henning Kronstam, former Principal of the Royal Danish Ballet
- Gillian Lynne, former Principal of The Royal Ballet, now a renowned musical theatre chroeographer
- Peter Martins, former Principal of the Royal Danish Ballet and New York City Ballet
- Sir Peter Wright, former Principal dancer and Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet
- Eva Evdokimova, international guest dancer, recognised as a Prima Ballerina Assoluta
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“I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts by black women. A working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn could become an expert on Shakespeare or Baudelaire, my students seemed to believe, if she mastered the language, the texts, and the critical literature. But they would not grant that a middle-class white man could ever be a trusted authority on Toni Morrison.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American scholar and educator. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B2 (July 27, 1994)
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—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)