Susan Coxe Hendl was an American ballet dancer and repetiteur.
11 Facts About Susan Hendl
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Susan Hendl danced with the New York City Ballet between 1963 and 1983, then staged and coached works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins for both NYCB and other companies.
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Susan Hendl took a ballet class with Alexandra Danilova, a Russian-born ballerina who taught at the School of American Ballet, when Hendl was in preschool.
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In 1959, Susan Hendl entered the School of American Ballet in New York City and studied at the Professional Children's School.
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Susan Hendl joined the New York City Ballet in 1963 at age 16.
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Susan Hendl's turns had the proper negligible spin to them and a last soaring lift added fleetingly elegiac note to the close of the first section.
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Susan Hendl worked with choreographer Peter Martins in the 1970s, and in 1979, she assisted Balanchine and Robbins in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme for the New York City Opera, which starred Rudolf Nureyev.
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Susan Hendl retired from performing in 1983, the same year Balanchine died.
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Susan Hendl then assumed the role of assistant ballet master at the New York City Ballet, and staged Balanchine and Robbins' works for other companies, including Dances at a Gathering for The Royal Ballet and San Francisco Ballet.
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Susan Hendl was a trustee for the George Balanchine Trust, and stepped down from the New York City Ballet in 2018 due to her health.
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Susan Hendl died from renal failure on October 12,2020, at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.