Which ballerina who defected to the West in 1970 won a Tony Award for her Broadway performance in 'On Your Toes' in 1983?
Valery Panov (1983), and "Hamlet" to music by Shostakovich for the Norwegian National Ballet (1984). He was artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders from 1984 to 1986, for whom he staged Romeo and Juliet and "Moves". In 1988 he created "Cléopâtre" for the Istanbul Devlet Ballet. On Broadway in 1983–84, Galina Panova succeeded Natalia Makarova, also a Russian ballerina who had defected, in the Broadway revival of "On Your Toes", for which Makarova had won a Tony Award. In 1993 he founded the Ashdod Art Centre, a ballet troupe. Five years later he founded the Panov Ballet Theatre in Ashdod.
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play The Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality leading roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the