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Lucia Chase

Born	Lucia Hosmer Chase^[1] (1897-03-24)March 24, 1897 Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
Died	January 9, 1986(1986-01-09) (aged 88)^[2] New York City, New York, U.S.
Awards	Presidential Medal of Freedom

Lucia Hosmer Chase (March 24, 1897^[3] – January 9, 1986) was an American dancer, actress, ballet director and also the co-founder of the American Ballet Theatre.^[2]

Life and career

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Chase was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the daughter of Elizabeth Hosmer (Kellogg) and Irving Hall Chase.^[4] She attended St. Margaret's School and later Bryn Mawr College.^[5]

After deciding to focus on theater, she studied drama at New York's Theater Guild School where she also took ballet lessons. Though her first love was the theatre, after she decided that dance was to be her life, she studied seriously with, among others, Mikhail Mordkin, Michel Fokine, Antony Tudor, and Bronislava Nijinska. She performed with the Mordkin Ballet from 1937 to 1939, where she danced the title roles in The Sleeping Beauty and Giselle.

In 1940, she and Richard Pleasant founded Ballet Theatre (later American Ballet Theatre), with Lucia Chase as principal dancer (and prime financial backer), although she concentrated on the more dramatic and comedic roles.

She created the Eldest Sister in Tudor's Pillar of Fire (1942) and the Greedy One in Agnes de Mille's Three Virgins and a Devil (1941). In 1945 she and Oliver Smith jointly took over direction of American Ballet Theatre.

She retired from the stage in 1960, and retired as company director in 1980, when she was succeeded by Mikhail Baryshnikov.

She devoted her energy and a large part of her personal fortune over four decades to ensure the company's survival. She brought Tudor and Baryshnikov to American Ballet Theatre and encouraged US choreographers such as Jerome Robbins, Glen Tetley and Twyla Tharp. She was awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.

Chase was married to Thomas Ewing, with whom she had two sons. She died in New York City.

Chase was inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame in 1988.

In 2009, the book, Bravura!: Lucia Chase and the American Ballet Theatre, written by her son Alex C. Ewing, was released.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1976	Live from Lincoln Center (Swan Lake)	Queen Mother	1 episode
1957	Omnibus (Lizzie Borden)	Stepmother	1 episode
1973	American Ballet Theatre: A Close-Up in Time	Herself

References

^ "Lucia Chase".
^ ^a ^b Anderson, Jack (1986-01-10). "Lucia Chase Of Ballet Theater Is Dead". Select.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
^ Dale Grimm. "The Descendants of John Heywood - Irving Hall Chase". Heywoods.info. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
^ Hastings, Baird (2000). Chase, Lucia (1897-1986), ballet dancer and dance company director. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1800206. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
^ Lille, Dawn. "Lucia Chase (1907-1986)" (PDF). Dance Heritage Coalition. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

External links

Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame

1990s

1994	Mary Jobe Akeley Anni Albers Marian Anderson Beatrice Fox Auerbach Emma Fielding Baker Evelyn Longman Batchelder Catharine Beecher Jody Cohen Prudence Crandall Katharine Seymour Day Fidelia Fielding Charlotte Perkins Gilman Dorothy Goodwin Ella Grasso Estelle Griswold Mary Hall Alice Hamilton Katharine Hepburn Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn Isabella Beecher Hooker Emeline Roberts Jones Barbara B. Kennelly Clare Boothe Luce Rachel Taylor Milton Alice Paul Ellen Ash Peters Ann Petry Sarah Porter Theodate Pope Riddle Edna Negron Rosario Margaret Rudkin Susan Saint James Lydia Sigourney Virginia Thrall Smith Smiths of Glastonbury Hilda Crosby Standish Harriet Beecher Stowe Gladys Tantaquidgeon Betty Tianti Hannah Bunce Watson Chase G. Woodhouse
1995	Helen M. Feeney Caroline Hewins Donna Lopiano María Colón Sánchez
1996	Edythe J. Gaines Madeleine L'Engle Susanne Langer
1997	Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Annie Dillard Margo Rose Laura Wheeler Waring
1998	Dorrit Hoffleit Constance Baker Motley Rosa Ponselle Lillian Vernon Mabel Osgood Wright
1999	Jane Hamilton-Merritt Sophie Tucker Ann Uccello Florence Wald

2000s

2000	Emily Barringer Adrianne Baughns-Wallace Mary Goodrich Jenson
2001	Laura Nyro Catherine Roraback Maria Miller Stewart
2002	Florence Griswold Eileen Kraus Miriam Therese Winter
2003	Dotha Bushnell Hillyer Clarice McLean
2005	Martha Coolidge Helen Frankenthaler Rosalind Russell
2006	Helen Keller Mary Townsend Seymour Anne Stanback
2007	Dorothy Hamill Joan Joyce Glenna Collett-Vare
2008	Jewel Plummer Cobb Patricia Goldman-Rakic Barbara McClintock Joan A. Steitz
2009	Martha Minerva Franklin Carolyn M. Mazure Helen L. Smits

2010s

2010	Anne M. Mulcahy Martha Parsons Maggie Wilderotter
2011	Isabelle M. Kelley Denise Nappier Patricia Wald
2012	Anne Garrels Annie Leibovitz Faith Middleton
2013	Rosa DeLauro Barbara Franklin Linda Lorimer Augusta Lewis Troup
2014	Beatrix Farrand Jennifer Lawton Marian Salzman
2015	Margaret Bourke-White Carolyn Miles Indra Nooyi
2016	Rebecca Lobo Jane Pauley Joyce Yerwood
2017	Kristen Griest Ruth A. Lucas Regina Rush-Kittle
2018	Lucia Chase Anika Noni Rose Tina Weymouth
2019	Marian Chertow Nell Newman Martha Langevin Elizabeth George Plouffe

2020s

2020	Josephine Bennett Frances Ellen Burr Catherine Flanagan Sarah Lee Brown Fleming Clara Hill (suffragist) Elsie Hill Helena Hill Emily Pierson
2021	Enola G. Aird Patricia Baker Donna Berman Khalilah L. Brown-Dean Glynda C. Carr Callie Gale Heilmann Jerimarie Liesegang Kica Matos Marilyn Ondrasik Pamela Selders Teresa C. Younger
2022	Cora Lee Bentley Radcliffe Jennifer Rizzotti Lhakpa Sherpa Suzy Whaley
2023	Lisa Cortés Laura Cruickshank Carla Squatrito Regina Winters-Toussaint
2024	Sara Bronin Melissa Bernstein Barbara Summers

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