Stanislava Brezovar
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Stanislava Brezovar (7 November 1937 – 18 December 2003), married name Kleiber, was a Slovenian ballerina. She was also known as Stanka Brezovar.
Born in Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia, she studied to be a Germanist, but her primary love was ballet. She studied ballet in Düsseldorf. It was there that she met and married the Austrian conductor Carlos Kleiber. They are buried together in the Slovenian village of Konjšica near Litija.[1] She was survived by a son, Marko, and a daughter, Lillian.
In 1955, at the age of 18, she starred in the movie Ples čarovnic (Dance Of The Witches) a Triglav Film production in Slovenian.[2] The movie was a tour-de-force, 452 minutes of ballet to the Ples čarovnic symphonic poem by Blaž Arnič with choreography by Pia and Pino Mlakar.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Obituary section: Kleiber, Carlos" Current Biography Yearbook 2004 edition, H.W. Wilson Co., New York, p. 650;
- ^ Ples carovnic at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Ples čarovnic" Slovenian Film Fund (Zbirka slovenskega filma);
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- This article is based in part on material from the Slovenian Wikipedia.
[edit] External links
- "Stanislava Brezovar Kleiber" brief biography from her hometown webpage in Slovenian;
