Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 188, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1979 Page: 15 of 28
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dications pointed to a very successful career for ,
me," says Nini, who had that career thwarted
last August when he was struck by a train in his..
hometown Houston only a week before he was to
join the ballet company in Winnipeg, Canada
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he is in his 20s. "While at Banff, the director of
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and he offered me a position with the ballet’s
professional program
"I left Canada with the intention of going to
Houston, selling my car and packing all my
belongings I had everything taken care of but
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my plane ticket," he continued.
"It was about a week before I was to leave and
I was taking a workshop with Frederic Franklin.
I had been having some trouble with one of my
feet and I skipped class one morning. My brother
and I and a friend were in a long line of cars at a
railroad crossing. When we got about midway on
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worry about anything but their lives
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It is not lack of talent that keeps
Hugh Nini in Denton It's not lack of ambition,
determination or professional savvy. '
It's not even that the world of ballet has failed
to note the accomplishments of the young dan
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Some would say it could only have been fate
that kept Hugh Nini from joining the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet last summer Few would deny
the move would have been the turning point in
his professional career
'Pursuing my own professional career is all I
have ever really wanted I can’t sit here and say
1 would have gone on to the top, but all in-
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instructs 11- to 18-year-olds at the Gibson ?
School of Dance in Denton, where he $
studied prior to his trip to the Banff Centre (
of Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada, last
summer. Nini was to join the Royal Win-
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