Marika Besobrasova was a Monegasque dancer and ballet teacher of Russian origin.
13 Facts About Marika Besobrasova
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Marika Besobrasova was a founder and a head of Princess Grace Classic Dance Academy in Monte Carlo.
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Marika Besobrasova was born on 4 August 1918 in Yalta.
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Marika Besobrasova's grandfather was a general in command of Tsar Nicholas II's guards and her grandmother was a lady-in-waiting to the Czar's mother, Maria Feodorovna.
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Marika Besobrasova was two years old when the family left for Europe.
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Marika Besobrasova died on 24 April 2010 in a Monte Carlo hospital, at the age of 91.
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Marika Besobrasova spoke about Fokine as of the first genius she met.
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Between 1947 and 1949 Marika Besobrasova was the titular teacher of the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, and went to the Ballet des Champs Elysees where she remained until 1951.
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From 1966, in addition to her school in Monte Carlo, Marika Besobrasova headed the school of the Ballet and the Opera in Zurich and the Ballet of the Opera in Rome.
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Marika Besobrasova was in great demand as an educator throughout Europe and from 1970 worked in close collaboration with the Stuttgart Ballet.
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In 1971 Marika Besobrasova staged Rudolf Nureyev's Paquita for the American Ballet Theatre in New York City.
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The next year, in 1975, Marika Besobrasova's school was renamed to Princess Grace Classical Dance Academy.
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Marika Besobrasova remained the head of the school for thirty-four years until her death.