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Transitions.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-03 		Format: Online - approximately 662 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Transitions.(Obituary)

Article Excerpt
MIA SLAVENSKA

Mia Slavenska, one of the leading ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and a respected West Coast teacher, died in Westwood, California, on October 5, 2002. She was 86.

Born in Croatia, Slavenska was a child prodigy who became prima ballerina of the Yugoslav National Opera at 18. In 1936 she was awarded first prize at the Dance Olympics in Berlin, and the following year starred in the motion picture La Mort du cygne (released in 1938 as Ballerina in the U.S.). In '38 she joined the Ballet Russe, with which she remained associated...

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