Elisabetta Terabust was an Italian ballerina and company director.
20 Facts About Elisabetta Terabust
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Elisabetta Terabust trained at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and worked for the London Festival Ballet and the Ballet National de Marseille.
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Elisabetta Terabust's mother Charlotte was a French woman of Basque descent and took up training in ballet and dancing as a child.
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Elisabetta Terabust moved to Rome when she was eight years old, and began training at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma after joining it at age nine.
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Elisabetta Terabust practised under Attilia Radice and was made prima ballerina in 1966.
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Elisabetta Terabust performed in Giselle, La Sylphide, Les Biches, Balanchine's Symphony in C, Romeo and Juliet among others alongside choreographers Erik Bruhn, Aurel Milloss and Zarko Prebil.
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Elisabetta Terabust won the 1969 Positano Prize alongside Liliana Cosi and the 1970 Le Noci d'Oro en Lecce accolades, and was promoted to etoile in 1972.
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In 1973, Elisabetta Terabust moved from Marseille to London, joining the London Festival Ballet to perform some leading classical repertoire roles.
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Elisabetta Terabust worked with contemporary dancers such as George Balanchine, John Cranko, Barry Moreland and Glen Tetley.
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Elisabetta Terabust went on to dance to the versions of Nutcracker, Carmen and Notre-Dame de Paris amongst others set by Roland Petit at the Ballet National de Marseille at his request when she joined his company in 1977.
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Elisabetta Terabust returned to Italy in the 1980s and was a guest performer at Aterballetto in works by Alvin Ailey, Amedeo Amodio, Balanchine and William Forsythe.
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Elisabetta Terabust performed for the National Ballet of Canada and with the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma as well as Teatro Comunale, Florence, the Verona Arena and Naples' Teatro di San Carlo.
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In 1983, Elisabetta Terabust appeared on the BBC television programme Dancer.
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Between 1993 and 1997, Elisabetta Terabust served as director of Ballet at the La Scala opera house in Milan, where she taught Roberto Bolle and Massimo Murru.
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Elisabetta Terabust went on to direct the MaggioDanza that is a permanent company of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino lasting from 2000 until 2002.
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Between late 2002 and 2006, Elisabetta Terabust was director of the Corps de ballet at the Teatro di San Carlo.
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Elisabetta Terabust returned as director of the Teatro dell'Opera Di Roma in September 2007, before stepping down from the role in January 2009 and was replaced by Makhar Vaziev.
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Elisabetta Terabust was honorary director of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in her later years.
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Elisabetta Terabust received the International Dance Award City of Rieti from the Rieti municipality in 2013; she was invited twice between 2011 from 2014 by the Piero Prize Fasciolo patron to be a juror in choosing the award winner.
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Elisabetta Terabust died at her home close to the Campo de' Fiori in Rome on the morning of 5 February 2018 following a long illness.