# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/violette-verdy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:56:58.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/violette-verdy"
name: "Violette Verdy"
slug: "violette-verdy"
description: "Violette Verdy was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet in France and the Boston Ballet in the United States. From 1958 to 1977 she was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet where she performed in the world premieres of several works created specifically for her by choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She was Distinguished Professor of Music (Ballet) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, in Bloomington, and the recipient of two medals from the French government."
tagline: "Ballerina and ballet teacher (1933-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Violette_Verdy_Jewels_1967.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-12-01"
deathDate: "2016-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.5
  momentum:             3.048780487804878
  historical:           12.49748266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0893937/"
    handle:    "nm0893937"
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    title: "Віялет Вердзі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Violette Verdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Violette Verdy"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violette_Verdy"
    title: "Violette Verdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Violette Verdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Violette Verdy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Violette Verdy"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Violette Verdy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump