Since most of them were shouting and gesturing, he presumed he'd found the troupe of actors.

(The program book, little improved over last year's, says Miss Wang founded the troupe in 1953, but she was born only a year earlier.)

Mr. Poll, who founded the troupe 20 years ago, is not only its artistic director but also its resident choreographer.

Jeraldyne Blunden, who founded the troupe, died suddenly of kidney failure in November.

Patiently and brilliantly, Jeraldyne Blunden, who founded the troupe in 1968, has guided a regional group with a black heritage into the national ranks.

True, it had at its helm for many years the redoubtable Lucia Chase, who founded the troupe with Richard Pleasant in 1940.

The presentations at the Aronoff Center for the Arts found the troupe in fine shape.

It was choreographed, as was the entire program, by Amalia Hernandez, who founded the troupe in 1952.

Tina Ramirez, who founded the troupe in 1970, has always been an artistic director in search of new choreography.

He created his first theater company at age seventeen, and later founded the performing troupe, Cirque Aligre.