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Robert Joffrey

American ballet dancer and choreographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 2, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Robert Joffrey was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan in Seattle, Washington to a Pashtun father from Afghanistan and a mother from Italy.

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“Robert Joffrey” enters the record as american ballet dancer and choreographer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Robert, Joffrey and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 2, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Joffrey” 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.