Audrée Estey


Audrée Phipps Estey, known as "New Jersey's First Lady of Dance", was an American dancer who founded the Princeton Ballet Society and the American Repertory Ballet.

Biography

She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on January 7, 1910 as Audrée Phipps. She married and had a son, Lawrence M. Estey and a daughter, Carol Estey. In 1954 she founded the Princeton Ballet Society. In 1963 she founded the American Repertory Ballet. She died on June 6, 2002 in Deer Isle, Maine.