Biography of mia slavenska ballerina

Mia Slavenska, glittering ballerina of A dancer since the age of four, she studied in Zagreb under Josephine Weiss and made her debut in Baranović's ballet Licitarsko srce in , at what is today the Croatian National Theatre. She became the prima ballerina of the Zagreb Opera at the age of

Mia Slavenska, née Čorak Mia Slavenska, 86, Celebrated Ballerina By JACK ANDERSON October 09, Mia Slavenska, a ballerina celebrated both for her authoritative technique and for her red-haired beauty, died on Saturday at a retirement center in Los Angeles where she had lived in recent years. She was

Mia Slavenska, née Čorak was

Slavenska commissioned the ballet in the ’s for her small touring troupe, the Slavenska-Franklin Ballet Company. Her performances as “Blanche” with the charismatic, powerful Fredrick Franklin as “Stanley," Ramas later learned, were storied in the ballet world.

By 17, she was Mia Slavenska, one of the leading ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, co-founder of the Slavenska-Franklin Ballet and a respected former teacher at UCLA and California.

Towards the end of her Mia Slavenska, a ballerina celebrated both for her authoritative technique and for her red-haired beauty, died on Saturday at a retirement center in Los Angeles where she had lived in recent.

Slavenska, who died in 2002 She is the greatest Croatian ballerina, one of greatest in history. Mia Slavenska, the greatest Croatian female classical dancer and one of the greatest in history, was born in Brod na Savi, Croatia, on February 20, , the daughter of Milan and Heddwiga (Palme) Čorak.

The teacher, choreographer and ballet director By the age of 17, Slavenska had become the prima ballerina of the Zagreb Opera. In , she won awards for choreography and dance at the Olympic Games. She left Zagreb for Vienna, where she studied with renowned masters such as Léonide Massine, Gustav Kraus, and Lotti von Western.

The teacher, choreographer and In she co-founded the Slavenska-Franklin Ballet which toured N. America and abroad for three years. She choreographed several works for these companies including Trilogy (mus. Chopin, Slavenska Thimar and Company, ) and also created the role of Blanche in Bettis's A Streetcar Named Desire (with Slavenska-Franklin Ballet, ).