Derman, Vergie (1942–)

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Derman, Vergie (1942–)

South African ballet dancer. Born Sept 18, 1942, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Trained with Arnold Dover in South Africa before attending Royal Ballet School in London; danced with Royal Ballet throughout career, appearing in classical repertory works that include The Sleeping Beauty, and also in numerous contem-porary works such as Kenneth Macmillan's Valses nobles et sentimentals (1966), Anastasia and Elite Syncopations (1974), Frederick Ashton's The Dream (1964), Glen Tetley's Field Figures (1971), and more; performed briefly with Opera Ballet in Berlin (1966–67).