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Name	Charles Maurice Lisner
Born	12 March, 1928 Paris, France
Died	16 June, 1988 (aged 60) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (spinal)
Cultural Heritage	Polish Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Education *	Carlton Gardens Primary School (Melbourne) (student, 1937-1939) University High School (Melbourne) (student, 1940-1944)
Occupation or Descriptor *	ballet dancer (1948-1952) Overseas choreographer (1959-1974) Queensland, Australia dance company director (1959-1974) Queensland, Australia
Awards	Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (national) (recipient, 1972) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1976)
Key Organisations *	Queensland Ballet Company (artistic director, 1959-1974)
Workplaces *	Borovansky Ballet (performer, 1945-1947) Lisner Ballet Academy (owner, 1953-1974) Courier-Mail (Brisbane) newspaper (dance critic, 1976)

* Dates are approximate

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