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Lavinia Williams was born on 2 July, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American dancer and dance educator. Discover Lavinia Williams's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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73 years old |
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Cancer |
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2 July 1916 |
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2 July |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Date of death |
19 July, 1989 |
| Died Place |
Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
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United States
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Lavinia Williams Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Lavinia Williams Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Lavinia Williams worth at the age of 73 years old? Lavinia Williams’s income source is mostly from being a successful dancer. She is from United States. We have estimated Lavinia Williams's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Lavinia Williams (July 2, 1916 – July 19, 1989), who sometimes went by the married name Lavinia Williams Yarborough, was an American dancer and dance educator who founded national schools of dance in several Caribbean countries.
Grace Lavinia Poole Williams was born the second of six children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a family of west-indian descent.
She grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia and Brooklyn, New York, and studied at Washington Irving High School and then the Art Students League of New York, where she joined the American Negro Ballet, beginning her career in a number of dance companies and stage productions.
Williams married Léon Theremin in the mid-1930s.
In 1938, Theremin suddenly returned to the Soviet Union,
where he was imprisoned and later sent to a labor camp.
Williams never saw him again.
Her work included classical ballet, folk, modern, musicals, and, most importantly, Caribbean dance, which she mastered in the 1940s while working with Katherine Dunham.
She married Shannon Yarborough in the late 1940s and had two daughters, Sharron and Sara.
The younger daughter, Sara Yarborough-Smith, followed in her mother's footsteps as a professional dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Dance Theater of Harlem and The Robert Joffrey Ballet, among others.
She spent nearly the entirety of the years from 1953 through to the late 1980s teaching dance and founding and developing national schools of dance in Haiti, Guyana, and the Bahamas.
Lavinia visited Clara Rockmore in 1974 and expressed happiness in discovering that Theremin was still alive; shortly afterwards she and Theremin started corresponding, with Theremin even proposing remarriage.
She spent most of the last years of her life teaching in New York City, but left the United States for Haiti in February 1984.
The New York Times reported that she died of a heart attack in Port-au-Prince, although several other sources and Beryl Campbell reported it as "some kind of food poisoning".
Diana Dunbar, Lavinia's friend and student, arranged her funeral service.
