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James Sewell Ballet

non-profit organization in the USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ6142952 ↗
Source-derived summary

The James Sewell Ballet is a ballet company of eight dancers founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1990 by James Sewell and Sally Rousse.

History

James Sewell Ballet (JSB) was founded in 1990 by James Sewell and Sally Rousse in New York City. In 1992, Sewell and Rousse moved the company to Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sewell's hometown, where it has resided for nearly two decades.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “James Sewell Ballet” as non-profit organization in the USA. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-01-01. The account is most persuasive where James, Sewell and Ballet can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as non-profit organization in the USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6142952. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990 and 1992.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating named record creators
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This entry incorporates text from “James Sewell Ballet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.