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Obituary for Alfred Rodrigues who died aged 81. Found via the FT site from the Guardian.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> The career of the South African dancer and choreographer Alfred Rodrigues, who has died aged 81, started in postwar London after his arrival on a troopship. He studied with the Russian Vera Volkova - Margot Fonteyn was a fellow pupil - and then joined the Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet at Covent Garden, becoming a soloist in 1949 and ballet master from 1953-54 <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><A HREF="http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020219000805&query=ballet" TARGET=_blank> <B> MORE </B> </A>
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