Stanislava Brezovar Explained

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 German-born Austrian conductor Carlos Kleiber.

In 1955, at the age of 18, she starred in the movie Ples čarovnic (Dance of The Witches), a Triglav Film production in Slovenian. The movie was a tour-de-force, 452 minutes of ballet to the Ples čarovnic symphonic poem by Blaž Arnič with choreography by Pia andPino Mlakar.[1]

Brezovar is buried together with Carlos Kleiber in the Slovenian village of Konjšica near Litija.[2]

References

  1. http://www.film-sklad.si/client.si/index.php?formID=183&ID=253 "Ples čarovnic" Slovenian Film Fund (Zbirka slovenskega filma)
  2. "Obituary section: Kleiber, Carlos" Current Biography Yearbook 2004 edition, H.W. Wilson Co., New York, p. 650;

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