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Olga Fricker
Olga Marguerite Fricker (July 19, 1902 – November 20, 1997) was a Canadian-born dancer, educator and choreographer, a proponent of the Cecchetti method of ballet training. She is also associated with the '' Doctor Dolittle'' children's stories of her brother-in-law, Hugh Lofting. Earlly life and education Fricker was born in Kitchener, Ontario, the daughter of Jacob Fricker and Lavina Mary Freeman Fricker. She trained with Amy Sternberg in Toronto. Career Dance Fricker moved to the United States during the 1920s. In 1931, she directed dances for an open-air production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' at Belle Isle Park. In 1934, she and her company gave a recital at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1935 she danced as a soloist with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra. She worked with Victoria Cassan in Detroit and took over the School of Dance at the Civic Theatre there. She established the Concert Group, which danced to works by Bach, Strauss, and Liszt with the Detro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecchetti Method
The Cecchetti method is variously defined as a style of ballet and as a ballet training method devised by the Italian ballet master Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928). The training method seeks to develop essential skills in dancers as well as strength and elasticity. Cecchetti-trained dancers are commonly found in ballet and other dance companies throughout the world. History The greatest influence on the development of the Cecchetti method was Carlo Blasis, a ballet master of the early 19th century. A student and exponent of the traditional French school of ballet, Blasis is credited as one of the most prominent ballet theoreticians and the first to publish a codified technique, the 'Traité élémentaire, théorique, et pratique de l'art de la danse' ("Elementary, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Art of the Dance"). Reputedly a very rigorous teacher, Blasis insisted on his students conforming to strict technical principles when learning to dance, a philosophy which Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, it is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies. Through 2019, it had an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spring and a shorter season at the David H. Koch Theater in the fall; the company tours around the world the rest of the year. The company was scheduled to have a 5-week spring season at the MET preceded by a 2-week season at the Koch Theater beginning in 2020. ABT is the parent company of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, and was recognized as "America's National Ballet Company" in 2006 by the United States Congress. History In 1939 Pleasant and Chase committed to the creation of "a large scale company with an eclectic repertory". The pair and a small group from Mordkin Ballet formed Ballet Theatre. Their new company's first performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Kitchener, Ontario
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Canadian Female Dancers
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Canadian Choreographers
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballet Teachers
Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. Ballet has been influential globally and has defined the foundational techniques which are used in many other dance genres and cultures. Various schools around the world have incorporated their own cultures. As a result, ballet has evolved in distinct ways. A ''ballet'' as a unified work comprises the choreography and music for a ballet production. Ballets are choreographed and performed by trained ballet dancers. Traditional classical ballets are usually performed with classical music accompaniment and use elaborate costumes and staging, whereas modern ballets are often performed in simple costumes and without elaborate sets or scenery. Etymology Ballet is a French word which had its origin in Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Deaths
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1902 Births
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Sacramento, California
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Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures
''Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures'' is a collection of short stories written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, published posthumously as twelfth and last in the Doctor Dolittle series of children's fiction. The stories and illustrations were distributed during the 1920s by the Herald Tribune Syndicate and all may been published in the ''New York Herald Tribune'' newspaper, among others. The 1952 collection was their first appearance in book form. The first edition contained introductory items by his widow and sister-in-law and eight Doctor Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting: * "Foreword" by Josephine Lofting * "Doctor Dolittle and His Family" by Olga Fricker * "The Sea Dog" (†) * "Dapple" * "The Dog Ambulance" * "The Stunned Man" * "The Crested Screamers" * "The Green Breasted Martins" * "The Story of the Maggot" (†) * "The Lost Boy" The contemporary book club edition omitted two of the longer stories (†) and there have been later editions of six rather than eight st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Dolittle And The Green Canary
''Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary'' is a Doctor Dolittle book written by Hugh Lofting. Although much of the material had been printed originally in 1924 for the '' Herald Tribune Syndicate'', Lofting planned to complete the story in the book form but never finished before he died. Lofting's wife's sister, dancer Olga Fricker, completed the book and was published posthumously in 1950. Everything except the first and last chapter are by Lofting. Much of the book is repeated from the 1926 novel, ''Doctor Dolittle's Caravan ''Doctor Dolittle's Caravan'' is a novel written by Hugh Lofting and published in 1926 by Frederick A. Stokes. It deals with the titular character's bird opera, centering on a female green canary named Pippinella. It is one of many books Hugh L ...''. It tells the story of the Doctor's friend Pippinella the Green Canary, in slightly greater depth. External links ''Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary'' available at Internet Archive (scanned books) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serial (publishing)
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