Edward Caton

Edward Caton (born April 3, 1900 in Saint Petersburg , † October 22, 1981 in New York City ) was an American dancer, ballet teacher and choreographer.

Caton was born in Saint Petersburg, where his father worked as the tsar's stable master. Encouraged by Fyodor Chalyapin , who was a friend of the family, he took private ballet lessons from Lydia Nelidova and Agrippina Vaganova . During the October Revolution the family returned to the USA, and from 1920 Caton danced in Anna Pavlovna's troupe, in the Chicago Opera Ballet , the Philadelphia Ballet , the Mordkin Ballet (1938) and between 1940 and 1942 in the Ballet Theater .

From 1942 to 1943 he taught as a guest at the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo . In the USA he taught at various schools. His students included Agnes de Mille , Cynthia Gregory and Marianna Tcherkassky . With his adopted son Gyles Fontaine and Eric Wolff , he founded the Aegis Universal Dance and Performance Group in 1976 , a multimedia group in which he played minor roles until shortly before his death.

Caton was successful as a choreographer with Sebastian after the composition by Gian Carlo Menotti , a ballet that was performed in 1944 by the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas with Viola Essen and Francisco Moncion in the leading roles, Lola Montez for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo ( 1947) and triptych for the Ballet Theater (1952).

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SURNAME	Caton, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American dancer, ballet teacher, and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 22, 1981
Place of death	New York City