Question: Before Dennis Wayne joined Dennis Wayne's Dancers, what city was his ballet company based in?

Ballet Manila is a classical ballet institution and dance company in the Philippines.  It currently highlights more than fifty highly trained dancers in the highly rigorous Russian (Vaganova) method of classical ballet.  Locally the company has performed in 47 cities holding more than 4,100 performances.  The company has done tours in Asia, Europe and North America, where it has held more than 140 performances.  The company is most notable for its in-house creative director, principal dancer and prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde.  Along with Ballet Philippines and the Philippine Ballet Theatre, Ballet Manila is one of the three major ballet companies in the Philippines.  It regularly holds its performances at the Aliw theater and Star Theater, which are both located within Star City at Pasay City.  The concept of a ballet company by the dancers, of the dancers and for the dancers was the idea of Lisa Macuja-Elizalde when she, along with ballet master Osias Barroso and ten other dancers established Ballet Manila in 1995. <SEP>  Formed in the summer of 1975 after Wayne left the American Ballet Theatre, the contemporary ballet company drew on the talents of many famous dancers and received critical acclaim. Dennis Wayne's Dancers was a New York based contemporary ballet company founded around dancer Dennis Wayne by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.  The dancers came from a variety of different companies, including Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.  Known for their virtuosic skill, the company performed both ballet and modern dance works.  Dennis Wayne’s Dancers presented diverse programs with pieces by a variety of choreographers; though he also presented work he choreographed himself.  Dennis Wayne also danced with the Company, but did not begin appearing with them until 1986. <SEP>  It has an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spring and a shorter season at the David H. Koch Theater in the fall; the company tours around the world the rest of the year.  ABT was founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant and is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies.  ABT is also the parent company of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, and was recognized as "America's National Ballet Company" in 2006 by the United States Congress. American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. <SEP> Boris Vladimirovich Volkoff, OC (born Boris Vladimirovich Baskakoff; April 24, 1900 – March 11, 1974) was a Canadian-Russian ballet dancer, director, choreographer and ballet master.  After studying dance in Warsaw and Moscow he defected from Russia and eventually settled in Toronto.  He created the Boris Volkoff School of Dance which trained ballet dancers, and the Boris Volkoff Ballet Company which is arguably considered the first ballet company in Canada.  He gave his dancers and studio to the National Ballet of Canada to raise the profile of Canadian ballet.  He regretted this decision and attempted to revive his company which ended in failure.  He was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in 1973, one year before his death.