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treschic53

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  • Connection to/interest in ballet** (Please describe. Examples: fan, teacher, dancer, writer, avid balletgoer)
    teacher, dancer, balletomane
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    new york
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    NY
  1. Richard Thomas and Barbara Fallis were my teachers for four wonderful years--1966/67 -1970-71. I was there almost from the beginning of the school on W 56th St. Funny--they almost never called me by name-- I was called "little one". ( I was little and I was young). I do remember Mr. Thomas having a high, very straight extension...but he disliked seeing extreme, exaggerated extensions from us in class. He would do hilarious imitations of high, crotch-revealing developpé to make his point. And I loved the petit allegro---always en dedans and en dehors. You had to think fast in his classes. Great Cecchetti foundation for young dancers. Miss Fallis would give pointe class without pointe shoes. She had amazing feet..... And so glad that somebody else remembers Sean Lavery as Owen-- he was a young boy in class then........ There were usually some excellent professional dancers in the class, too---not only the Feld dancers, but Joffrey, NYCB, etc. so it was always an interesting studio....................
  2. I remember Bronwyn--took class with her every day for several years. I think that she took the bronze medal at the first Jackson competetion. Her parents were wonderful teachers. They moved the Thomas -Fallis school from the west 50's to the old SAB 2291 Bway location and later changed the name to New York School of Dance. I saw her once on TV-might have been Merv Griffin. Her brother (Richard Thomas Jr.) was doing an interview and Bronwyn danced to a ragtime piano roll.
  3. She was a good friend of my first teacher, Sylvia Umlas (National Academy) and sometimes would come to the studio and guest teach. As a child, she was my first "real ballerina"! She was kind and lyrical and we all loved when she came. Her movements were fluid and lovely, and she was inspiring to me as a young ballet student. I've never forgotten....50 years later.... hard to believe that she was 95.
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