15 Facts About Stanislas Idzikowski

Stanislas Idzikowski was a Polish dancer and ballet master, active in England, and with such historic companies as Pavlova's, Ballets Russes, and Vic-Wells.

When Idzikowski was sixteen, he relocated to England, and Anglicized his given name Stanislaw to Stanislas.

Stanislas Idzikowski danced in the touring company of Russian ballet star Anna Pavlova in 1912.

Stanislas Idzikowski traveled to Lausanne in 1914 where he met the impresario Sergei Diaghilev.

Small, muscular man, Stanislas Idzikowski had developed a strong classical ballet technique and was capable of performing virtuosic feats.

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Stanislas Idzikowski danced with Alexandra Danilova in its production of Jack in the Box, with music by the late Erik Satie, choreography by George Balanchine.

In 1924, both on leave from Ballets Russes, Stanislas Idzikowski appeared with his frequent dance partner Lydia Lopokova at the London Coliseum.

Stanislas Idzikowski was drawn to Soirees de Paris, a new dance enterprise organized by Etienne de Beaumont.

For Vic-Wells, Stanislas Idzikowski performed his well-known Blue Bird role in the revised, one-act Aurora's Wedding, and his Harlequin in Carnaval.

Stanislas Idzikowski later associated with the commercial production of films: The Gods Go a-Begging, Carnival, and Peg of Old Drury.

For several years starting in 1939, Stanislas Idzikowski served as ballet master for Mona Inglesby's International Ballet.

At Cecchetti's urging, Idzikowski then started to work with the maestro, and later with the balletomane Cyril W Beaumont, to preserve and codify the Cecchetti method of teaching.

Stanislas Idzikowski remembered him as a guest teacher during her early years at Sadler's Wells under Ninette de Valois, which would have been in the mid 1930s:.

Stanislas Idzikowski was diminutive, dapper, and precise, speaking rather good English with a clipped Polish accent.

Art of Stanislas Idzikowski Idzikowsky is a thin volume published in a limited edition of 350 copies, with six visual art works, twelve photographs, and five pages of text.