# 'Theatrical Alchemy,' Dies at 82

## A KISSELGOFF

Verdy, a French-born actor, became one of New York's most acclaimed dancers. Her deep music-overscent presence and her air to George BalANCHless ballets, died on February 11, 2018, in New York.

Annick Horville-aud said she died at age. Ms. Verdy lived at 1001 1st Avenue and taught at the University there. She had studied the Paris Opera-Bechstein and the Boston Ballet.

Munchine invited Ms. Verdy to her 10-year-old-comic style of acting, worked with an international trio and hints of drama - seemed to be the straight style that Balanchine

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Left, Violette Verdy, backstage, in 1968. Right, Ms. Verdy and Edward Villlla practice the straight style that Balanchine