What is Sono Osato?
{{Infobox dancer | image = Sono Osato in Francesca da Rimini costume. (6174097084).jpg | caption = Sono Osato in Francesca da Rimini costume | name = Sono Osato | birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|8|29|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Omaha, Nebraska]], United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|12|26|1919|8|29|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Manhattan]], New York, United States | former_groups = [[Original Ballet Russe|Ballets Russe de Monte-Carlo]] [[American Ballet Theatre]] | spouse = {{marriage|[[Victor Elmaleh]]|1943|2014|end=his death}} | children =2 sons }} '''Sono Osato''' (August 29, 1919 &ndash; December 26, 2018) was an American dancer and actress.<ref>''Distant Dances'' (1980), autobiography by Sono Osato</ref> Osato began her career at the age of fourteen with the [[Original Ballet Russe|Ballets Russe de Monte-Carlo]]; she later went on to dance with [[American Ballet Theatre]] (then Ballet Theatre). While at ABT, she danced roles in such ballets as [[Kenneth MacMillan]]'s ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'', [[Antony Tudor]]'s ''[[Pillar of Fire (ballet)|Pillar of Fire]]'', and [[Bronislava Nijinska]]'s ''The Beloved''. Osato was found dead on December 26, 2019 in [[Manhattan]], aged 99.<ref name=goldstein>{{citation |last=Goldstein|first=Richard |title=Sono Osato, Japanese-American Ballet Star, Is Dead at 99| newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 26, 2018| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/obituaries/sono-osato-dead.html}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDB name|0651522}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110219120039/http://australiadancing.org/subjects/5101.html Australia Dancing – Lutte eternelle] * [http://www.australiadancing.org/subjects/4881.html Australia Dancing – brief entry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320190032/http://australiadancing.org/subjects/4881.html |date=2012-03-20 }} * [http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3414642 Photograph of Osato in costume] * [http://careertransition.org Career Tran