{{short description|American ballet dancer and chiropractor}} {{Infobox dancer | name = Paul Frame | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Charleston, West Virginia<br> United States | other_names = | residence = | education = North Carolina School of the Arts<br>School of American Ballet<br>City College of New York<br>Northeast College of Health Sciences | occupation = Ballet dancer | years_active = | home_town = | spouse = | former_groups = Ohio Ballet<br>New York City Ballet | death_date = | death_place = | website = }}
'''Paul E. Frame''' (born April 16, 1957) is an American chiropractor and retired ballet dancer. Frame danced as a member of the corps de ballet at New York City Ballet for ten years before retiring from the stage. He is currently the resident chiropractor for Ballet Arizona.
== Early life == Paul Frame was born in Charleston, West Virginia to Marvan and Mary Elizabeth Frame.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wral.com/peter-frame-ballet-dancer-and-instructor-dies-at-61/17813959/|title=Peter Frame, Ballet Dancer and Instructor, Dies at 61 :: WRAL.com|last=WRAL|date=2 September 2018|publisher=|accessdate=22 October 2018}}</ref> As children, he and his twin brother Peter Frame took ballet lessons with Jerry Rose.<ref name="dance-teacher.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.dance-teacher.com/peter-frame-2601977543.html|title=Remembering Peter Frame, Former New York City Ballet Principal and Beloved Teacher|date=4 September 2018|publisher=|accessdate=22 October 2018}}</ref>
== Career == === Ballet ===
Frame was a member of the ''corps de ballet'' of the New York City Ballet from 1979 to 1999.<ref name="NilsenProfile"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/peter-frame-dead.html|title=Peter Frame, Ballet Dancer and Instructor, Dies at 61|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2 September 2018|publisher=|accessdate=22 October 2018|last1=Jacobs|first1=Julia}}</ref>
The Frame brothers, Paul and Peter, were profiled in a 1981 book, ''Twins on Twins'', written by Julie Szekely with photographs by Kathryn McLaughlin Abbe and Frances McLaughlin-Gill.
Frame was awarded a scholarship to attend North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. After graduating from School of the Arts, he joined the Ohio Ballet. While dancing with the Ohio Ballet, Frame was offered a spot at the School of American Ballet in New York City on full-scholarship. He was chosen by George Balanchine to join the corps de ballet at New York City Ballet, where he danced for ten years.<ref name="framechiro.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.framechiro.com/chiropractor/|title=Dr. Paul Frame, a Chiropractor in Tempe, Arizona|website=www.framechiro.com|accessdate=22 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="dance-teacher.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19830517-01.2.43&|title=Columbia Daily Spectator 17 May 1983 — Columbia Spectator|website=spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu|accessdate=22 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycballet.com/Explore/Our-History/NYCB-Alumni.aspx|title = New York City Ballet Alumni | New York City Ballet}}</ref> In 1983, Jennifer Dunning, dance reviewer for the New York Times, praised his "impassioned Mouse King" in ''The Nutcracker''.<ref name="DunningReview">{{cite news |last1=Dunning |first1=Jennifer |title=CITY BALLET: BALANCHINE'S 'NUTCRACKER' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/13/arts/city-ballet-balanchine-s-nutcracker.html |accessdate=23 October 2018 |work=New York Times |date=13 December 1983}}</ref> He danced the role again in 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/246651899|title=The nutcracker Dec. 7, 1984 / [presented by] New York City Ballet; choreography by George Balanchine; music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|publisher=|accessdate=22 October 2018}}</ref> Dunning praised his "bold, clear dancing," in the sextet in the 1986 performance of ''Shadows,'' where she wrote that his dancing was a "highlight of the performance."<ref name="DunningShadows">{{cite news |last1=Dunning |first1=Jennifer |title=CITY BALLET: 'SHADOWS' |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/02/arts/city-ballet-shadows.html |accessdate=23 October 2018 |date=2 May 1986}}</ref> In 1987, Dunning wrote that Frame "performed with a special radiance."<ref name="DunningBallet">{{cite news |last1=Dunning |first1=Jennifer |title=DANCE: TWO DEBUTS ON PROGRAM OF CITY BALLET |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/04/arts/dance-two-debuts-on-program-of-city-ballet.html |accessdate=23 October 2018 |work=New York Times |date=4 May 1987}}</ref><ref name="NilsenProfile"/> In 1986, he danced in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=live+from+lincoln+center&p=4&item=T:72893|title = Great Performances: Live from Lincoln Center: New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Tv)}}</ref>
=== Chiropractic === Frame attended college at City College of New York. He graduated from Northeast College of Health Sciences in 1998 with a degree in Chiropractic and Physical Medicine Modalities and Therapeutic Procedures.<ref name="NilsenProfile"/> He began his Chiropractic practice in Tempe, Arizona shortly after finishing school. He is the resident chiropractor for Ballet Arizona.<ref name="Nolsen">{{cite news |last1=Nilsen |first1=Richard |title=Countdown to 'Nutcracker' |publisher=Arizona Republic |date=11 December 2008|id={{ProQuest|239074872}} }}</ref><ref name="NilsenProfile">{{cite news |last1=Nilsen |first1=Richard |title=He keeps troupe on pain-free toes (profile) |publisher=Arizona Republic |date=8 February 2009|id={{ProQuest|239085276}} }}</ref> He met the Ballet's Artistic Director, Ib Andersen, when both men were dancers with the New York City Ballet.<ref name="NilsenProfile"/>
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