canbelto Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 According to Sara Mearns' Instagram Sara Leland has passed away: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJUo2QpcHq/ Link to comment
ECat Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 This is very sad news. A wonderful dancer and coach she was. May she rest in peace. Link to comment
dirac Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 So sorry to hear this. An interview from 1982. Quote Some of Miss Leland's fellow dancers term her a ''memory bank'' because of her ability not only to retain and teach steps, but to remember parts and communicate the entire feeling of over 30 ballets. Mr. Balanchine has so trusted this retentive talent that he has dispatched her to many ballet companies around the world to teach their dancers his choreography and to transmit those details of style that give his ballets life. She uses videotapes to help teach, but says she believes strongly in imparting personally both the technical details and the inner depths of these ballets. Link to comment
canbelto Posted November 29, 2020 Author Share Posted November 29, 2020 More tributes: From wendy: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJ5KWQpn5z/ Nikolaj Hubbe: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJlOKehbTx/ Joseph Gordon: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJ0nrBAc7w/ Link to comment
Drew Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 I complete missed this news until this second--very sad. I think of Leland whenever I see Symphony in Three Movements--one of my favorite Balanchine Ballets. May she rest in peace. Link to comment
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