Nathalie Gleboff, Director of School of American Ballet
Nathalie Gleboff, former executive director of the School of American Ballet, the New York City Ballet's affiliate school, and a longtime administrator there, died on Sept. 30 in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 88. The cause was pneumonia, the school announced.
Ms. Gleboff moved from New York to California after serving as executive director from 1985 to 2004. She was the last of the women of Russian background hired by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein to run the school or its various activities since its founding in 1934.
Ms. Gleboff was hired in 1959 to administer scholarships given to the school by the Ford Foundation but soon broadened her responsibilities. She became the school’s associate director in 1970 and served on its board of directors from its creation in 1974 to her retirement.