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- With lighting designer Thomas Skelton, Poll founded Akron’s first professional company, The Chamber Ballet, which became Ohio Chamber, and eventually became Ohio Ballet in 1974.
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May 2, 2006 · Mr. Poll and Tom Skelton, the theater and dance lighting designer who was Mr. Poll's companion, founded the Chamber Ballet, later the Ohio Ballet, in Akron in 1968.
Ohio Ballet was founded by Heinz Poll and lighting designer Tom Skelton in 1968. While it was originally a student company drawn from Poll’s classes at the University of Akron, the group turned professional in 1974.
Mar 29, 1981 · The origins of the Ohio Ballet were in a chamber ensemble. Heinz Poll, its founder and artistic director, even called his previous troupe the Ohio Chamber Ballet before it turned professional...
In 1974, with lighting designer Thomas Skelton, he founded Akron’s first professional company, the Chamber Ballet, which eventually became Ohio Ballet.
At its founding in 1968, the Ohio Ballet was named the Chamber Ballet. Eight years later it acquired its current title. Under the guidance of founding director Heinz Poll, it ...
In 1968, Poll formed Chamber Ballet, a student company at the University of Akron. The company was later renamed Ohio Chamber Ballet and eventually Ohio Ballet.
Poll and Tom Skelton, the theater and dance lighting designer who was Mr. Poll’s companion, founded the Chamber Ballet, later the Ohio Ballet, in Akron in 1968. Originally consisting of Mr. Poll’s students at the University of Akron, where he taught ballet for many years, the company turned professional in 1974.
