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2.Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, on December 1, 1957, Bissell began to study ballet at the age of ten in Toledo, Ohio.
3.Mikhail Baryshnikov, artistic director of ART, says Bissell was “One of the brightest lights in the entire ballet world.
4.“He didn’t want to get off drugs; he wanted to get away with it,” says his friend.
5.Critic Clive Barnes hailed “the emergence of a major star, but Bissell never lived up to that early promise.
6.Surviving are his parents, his twin and another brother, and two sisters.
7.The company extended what Dillingham calls moral support keeping Bissell employed, finding him a therapist, locating donors to help pay for his treatment.
8.At press time, the cause of his death had not been determined. According to an ABT spokesperson, Bissell was enrolled in a company drug rehabilitation program at the time.
9.There were no signs of murder or suicide: apparent1y Bissell, 30, died in his sleep.
10.Recently Bissell agreed to try the Betty Ford Center, again “at the expense ART donors, and reportedly stayed five weeks.

