Biography of mia slavenska ballerina

Yugoslavian-born ballerina, choreographer, and teacher. Name variations: Mia Corak. Born Mia Slavenski-Brod in Yugoslavia in 1916 (one source cites 1914); studied for seven years at the Royal Academy of Music, Zagreb; had dance training in Zagreb, Vienna, Paris (under Bronislava Nijinska), and New York (under Vincenzo Celli); also studied modern dance with Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigmore; married Kurt Neumann, in 1946; children: at least one daughter, Maria.

A child prodigy, Mia Slavenska debuted at the Zagreb National Opera House at age five, in 1921, and stayed on to become a soloist in 1931 and prima ballerina in 1933.

That year she joined Bronislava Nijinska 's short-lived Théâtre de la Danse in Paris, receiving wild acclaim from Parisian audiences during her season there. In 1936, Slavenska appeared in the movie La Mort du Cygne (released in America as Ballerina), considered one of the few classic movies about dance.

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