Ludmila Dokoudovsky, ballet teacher

Ludmila Dokoudovsky, a part-time lecturer in dance in the Performing Arts Department in Arts and Sciences from 1983 to 1985, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 1998, at Saint Louis University Hospital after a brief illness. She was 50 and lived in St. Charles County.

A talented ballet performer, instructor and choreographer, Dokoudovsky founded the St. Louis Ballet and the Ballet Center of St. Louis. She was among the first Americans to compete in the International Dance Competition in Bulgaria.

Throughout her career, Dokoudovsky worked with such legendary ballet figures as Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Alicia Markova, David Lichine, Bronislava Nijinska and Agnes deMille.