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About David Peregrine
- David Peregrine, OC (born September 19, 1954; died on or shortly after June 7, 1989) was a Canadian dancer and actor. He was born David Alan Evans in Llay, Wales and grew up in Ottawa.
- Peregrine studied ballet with Nesta Toumine in Ottawa, going on to study at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet school with David Moroni and at the Banff School of Fine Arts.
- Evans adopted the stage name David Peregrine.
- He joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet as a member of the corps in 1975, becoming soloist three years later and principal dancer in 1980, partnering with Evelyn Hart.
- In 1980 he won a bronze medal at the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, performing the pas de deux from Norbert Vesak's ballet "Belong." Hart won a gold medal.
- In 1986, Peregrine was made an officer of the Order of Canada.
- He performed two seasons with the San Francisco Ballet and was a guest artist with the Alberta Ballet, Boston Ballet and Scottish Ballet.
- Peregrine appeared as Smike in the play Nicholas Nickleby and the monster in Frankenstein in productions by the Manitoba Theatre Centre. He died in a plane crash on June 7, 1989 after flying his small plane 100 miles south from Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Due to bad weather, a rescue crew was only able to reach the site 8 days later.
- Two passengers, his brother and a friend, also died in the crash.
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