HART NAMED TO BALLET WEST POST
SALT LAKE CITY — John Hart, 64, a former ballet master and assistant director of England’s Royal Ballet, has been chosen as the new artistic director for Utah’s Ballet West, the company announced Wednesday. He succeeds Bruce Marks, who left the company in June to be become artistic director of the Boston Ballet.
Hart’s career began in London in 1938 when he joined Sadler’s Wells Ballet (now the Royal Ballet) as a principal dancer. He later became ballet master and from 1962 to 1970 was an assistant director to Frederick Ashton. From 1975 to 1977 Hart served as artistic administrator of the Royal Ballet.
Hart became associated with Ballet West earlier this year when he came to Salt Lake City to stage three Ashton ballets. These productions received their premieres Wednesday night at the Capitol Theatre on the first program of the 1985-86 Ballet West season.
Hart currently lives in San Diego, where for several years he was chairman of the dance division of United States International University.
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