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NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Writer Charles Engell France, who was Mikhail Baryshnikov's assistant at the American Ballet Theater during the 1980s, has died in New York at age 59.
France collapsed in his apartment building Sunday and was dead on arrival at an area hospital, the New York Times reported Thursday. He had been in poor health for some time.
The Oklahoma City native studied at the school of Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen as a child and studied briefly at the New Dance Group Studio in New York as well.
He collaborated with Baryshnikov on two books, "Baryshnikov at Work" and "Baryshnikov in Color." France also wrote for Ballet Review.
France worked his way up through the ranks at the American Ballet Theater starting as a driver as a Columbia College student in the late 1960s.
He went on to work in the press office at ABT and was director of the office when Baryshnikov was named artistic director in 1980. He became Baryshnikov's assistant and the two are credited with revitalizing the troupe, the Times said. They both left the ABT in 1989.
He has no known survivors.
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