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Bway Gypsy and Teacher Drusilla Gaye Sturges Dies at 55

By: Aug. 25, 2005
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Drusilla Gaye Sturges, a noted Broadway dancer/actress and dance teacher, passed away at the age of 55 in her Chappaqua, New York home on July 9th.

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Born in Manchester, England on April 23, 1950, she emigrated to the United States as a member of The Royal Ballet.  At first performing under the name Dru Alexandrine, she was seen on "Disney on Parade," the "Bell Telephone Hour" and "The Voice of Firestone," as well as in revivals of The Pajama Game and My Fair Lady, in Evita (as Drusilla Ross) and in Onward Victoria. 

Sturges taught at a number of dance schools in New York--the The International Dance School at Carnegie Hall in New York City, State University of New York at New Paltz (as an adjunct professor of ballet),  The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry (as head of dance studies), Mozartina Music Conservatory in Tarrytown (as a director and choreographer), and at the Coupe Dance Studio in Nanuet and the Tappan Zee Dance Group in Tarrytown (dance instructor and choreographer at both).  Sturges, who was a member of both the Royal Academy of Dancing and Actor's Equity, later became a  realtor with Chappaqua's Julia B. Fee and Randolph Properties.

Sturges is survived by husband, John Sturges and her sons, Michael Ross, Charles and Max Sturges.  Back in England, her parents, Michael and Roona Seed of St. Mary's Platt, Kent, and her brother, Nigel Seed of Flansham, West Sussex, are her survivors.  Her family has requested that donations in her memory be made to Tappan Zee Dance Group, Carnegie Hall, Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation or the School of the American Ballet.





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