Irena Turkey

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Irena Turska (born October 26, 1912 in Warsaw, died February 22, 2012 in Konstancin-Jeziorna) is a Polish historian, critic and ballet theoretician.

Curriculum vitae

In 1943, she graduated from Mieczyńska School of Rhythmics and Artistic Dance. I learned about ballet and dance later under Stanisław Głowacki, and in 1964-1966 at the Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Chorégraphiques in Paris (as a French government scholarship). From 1946 to 1948 she taught classes in dance history at PWST in Warsaw (based in Lodz). In 1972-1989 she lectured on the history and aesthetics of dance in the Extramural Higher School of Dance Teachers at the Faculty of Music Education at PWSM in Warsaw. In 2002 he received the Minister of Culture Award for his contribution to the development of ballet education and popularizing ballet art in Poland. In 2012 he won the gold medal "Merit of Culture - Gloria Artis" and the medal of the Polish "Ad honorem" Polish Music Publishers. Creation

For many years she cooperated with "Musical Movement". She issued, among others. What is a ballet (1957), A Brief History of Dance and Ballet (1962), In a Dance (1965), Ballet Guide (1973, Second Edition, 1989, ed. third widened 1997, fourth edition expanded 2011), from the history of contemporary dance (1980), Almanac of Polish ballet 1945-1974 (1983).

She participated in the screenplay for Dancing (1959). Bibliography

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