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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 · Heinz Poll, a choreographer and a co-founder of the Ohio Ballet, died on Sunday at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He was 80. The cause was kidney disease, said Fran Schaul, a friend.
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. In 1977, the company made an appearance at Jacob’s Pillow.
Heinz Poll, who founded Ohio Ballet in 1968 and directed the company for three decades, died yesterday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
The premiere performance in 1968 marked the debut of the Chamber Ballet, the jewel-like little company that was later renamed Ohio Ballet. The premiere was lighted by Thomas Skelton, the world-renowned lighting designer who served as the associate director until his death in 1994.
May 1, 2006 · With Katherine B. Firestone, he founded the Dance Institute of the University of Akron in 1967 as a training school. The next year, Poll founded the Ohio Chamber Ballet with eight students.
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 ...
