Where did the woman who ran the Buffalo Ballet Theater from 1967 begin her career? 
Her career started in Russia,
Bronislava Nijinska
Bronislava Nijinska (Polish: "Bronisława Niżyńska" ; Russian: Бронисла́ва Фоми́нична Нижи́нская , "Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya", Belarusian: Браніслава Ніжынская ); (January 8, 1891 [O.S. December 27, 1890] — February 21, 1972) was a Polish ballet dancer, an innovative choreographer, and a teacher.
 She came from a family of professional dancers.
 Her career started in Russia, moved to France, then continued in Europe and the Americas.
Buffalo Ballet Theater
The Buffalo Ballet Theater is a Ballet company in Buffalo, New York, USA.
 It was founded by the dancer and choreographer Barry Leon.
 Bronislava Nijinska led the Buffalo Ballet Theater from 1967.
Maria Teresa del Real
Maria Teresa del Real is an American ballet dancer (born in Miami, 1963).
 She achieved success early in her career by winning a bronze medal at the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria in 1983.
 During her subsequent international career she held principal dancer positions with Ballets de San Juan (Puerto Rico), Pittsburgh Ballet Theater (USA), Royal Ballet of Flanders (Belgium) and English National Ballet.
 She has partnered with Rudolf Nureyev, Fernando Bujones, José Manuel Carreño, Maxamiliano Guerra and Carlos Acosta. Joy Womack
Joy Womack is an American ballet dancer.
 She is the first American to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s main training program, and the first American woman to sign a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet.
 She is currently a principal dancer at the Kremlin Ballet Theater in Russia. Maria Perini
Maria Perini (1873–1939) was an Italian ballet teacher who studied under the Italian ballet dancer and teacher Enrico Cecchetti.
 In 1916, she opened the first private ballet studio in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts building (the former House of Arshakuni) at Griboedovi street, Tbilisi, Georgia.
 In 1920, it became the State Ballet School of Opera and Ballet Theatre, where she became a teacher and director.
 Perini grew up with several well-known artists, among them Vakhtang Chabukiani, founders of the Georgian National Ballet theater Iliko Sukhishvili and Nino Ramishvili, Tamar Chabukiani, and Solomon (Soliko) Virsaladze.
 She was married to the Polish-Georgian artist Henryk Hryniewski. Ben Stevenson
Ben Stevenson OBE (born 4 April 1936), is a former ballet dancer with Britain's Royal Ballet and English National Ballet, co-director of National Ballet of Washington, D.C. (1971–1974), artistic director of Chicago Ballet (1974-1975), artistic director of Houston Ballet (1976–2003), and current artistic director of Texas Ballet Theater (2003–present). Emery LeCrone
Emery LeCrone is a dancer and choreographer from the United States.
 She grew up in North Carolina and trained at the School of Greensboro Ballet.
 LeCrone spent summers at intensives at the School of American Ballet.
 She graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts before joining the North Carolina Dance Theatre.
 She began choreographing in 2006.
 She was the resident choreographer of the New Chamber Ballet and the Columbia Ballet Collaborative.
 She has also choreographed works for the Oregon Ballet Theater and the Colorado Ballet.
 She describes her choreographic style as "this sliding, weighted, thick space." Arch Higgins
Arch Higgins (born Berkeley, California) was a soloist with New York City Ballet.
 He began his study at eight years with Berkeley Ballet Theater with former City Ballet dancer Sally Streets.
 From 1982 he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet which he entered full-time on scholarship four years later.
 He was the recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award and joined the NYCB corps de ballet in 1989.
 Higgins was promoted to soloist in 1998 and danced until 2011.
 He is now a guest teacher for the company and assistant children's ballet master. Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater
The Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater (Russian: Чувашский государственный театр оперы и балета , (Chuvash: Чăваш патшалăх оперăпа балет театрĕ ) is an opera and ballet theater in Cheboksary, Chuvashia (Russia).
 Initially, it was known as the Chuvash Musical Theater, but in 1993, it was given its present name. Dance in California
California is rich in dance history.
 In classical ballet, California is home to the oldest professional ballet company in the United States.
 The San Francisco Ballet, founded as the San Francisco Opera Ballet in 1933, predates both American Ballet Theater and New York City ballet.
 Barbara Crockett founded the Sacramento Ballet in 1954 and hosted the first festival for the Pacific Western Region of Regional Dance America in 1966.
 In modern dance, Ruth St. Denis established her second school in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles in 1940 while Lester Horton created the Horton Dance Group in 1934, also in Los Angeles.
 Ann Halprin founded the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop in 1950 and continues to live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area.
 The Bay Area in also home to Alonzo King's Lines Ballet and Oberlin Dance Collective.