Roseola hightower biography examples

American ballerina and member of the Choctaw Nation

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Born	()January 10, Durwood, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died	November 4, () (aged&#;88) Cannes, France
Occupation	Prima ballerina
Years&#;active	–
Spouse	Jean Robier &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;
Children	Dominique Monet Robier
Career
Former&#;groups	Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Cuevas Ballet
Dances	White Witch in Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochyntsi Black Swan in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake

Rosella Hightower (January 10, – November 4, ) was an American ballerina and member of the Choctaw Nation.

Roseola hightower biography examples images Live Stream. Francis Dvornik. Ballets she danced with that company included La Robe de plumes and Profile de silence. Hightower got another opportunity when Markova fell ill and she replaced her in her role of Giselle.

One of the Five Moons, she achieved fame in both the United States and Europe, and later enjoyed a career as an instructor and opera director.

Early life

Rosella Hightower was born in Durwood, Carter County, Oklahoma,^[1] the only child of the Choctaw Charles Edgar Hightower and his wife, the former Eula May Fanning.

She moved with her family to Kansas City, Missouri after her father took a new position with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. Hightower began her dance training in Kansas City under the instruction of Dorothy Perkins.^[2]

Career

After a appearance by Russian choreographer and ballet dancer Léonide Massine in Kansas City with Wassily de Basil's Ballets Russes, Massine invited Hightower to join a new ballet company he was forming in Monte Carlo.

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Hightower traveled to France at her own expense and discovered that she had been invited for further auditions and had been given no commitment of employment by the group. She was ultimately accepted into the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo where she was guided by Massine who recognized her hard work and ability to learn quickly. There she met André Eglevsky, her future partner at various dance companies.

After the outbreak of World War II, Hightower followed the Ballet Russe to New York City, where she joined the Ballet Theater in ^[2]

She joined the de Basil Ballet in , which was performing under the name Original Ballet Russe. Hightower received acclaim from John Martin of The New York Times after a March performance of Giselle by the Original Ballet Russe at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Roseola hightower biography examples wikipedia Hightower also was the replacement for Danilova which is how Rosella became the dance partner of Massine. She took as many ballet classes as she could and with a variety of teachers so she could learn as many ballet techniques as possible, which made her a stronger dancer. She ran the school while guiding major ballet companies in Europe. Hightower was promoted to soloist in her second year with the company, replacing Alicia Markova in Pas de Quartre , after Markova became injured.

After Alicia Markova, who had been scheduled to dance the title role, became sick, Hightower was called in as her replacement, and learned the part she had never danced before in some five hours of rehearsal with dancer/choreographer Anton Dolin. Martin's review stated that the "Original Ballet Russe had planned no novelty for the opening of its season but there was a major one on its program nevertheless.

This was the unscheduled first appearance of Rosella Hightower in the title role of Giselle", calling it "a thoroughly admirable achievement, which brought an ovation from the audience".^[3] Three days later, Martin's review of Swan Lake called Hightower "the newest star on the ballet horizon" after her two performances with Dolin and then André Eglevsky as her partner^[4]

In , she accepted an invitation from the Chilean Marquis George de Cuevas to join a new ballet company, which was variously called the Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo or the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas, but was most commonly called the de Cuevas Ballet by theatergoers.

The presence there of choreographer Bronislava Nijinska was one of the major factors in Hightower's decision. Nijinska choreographed for Hightower the "glitteringly virtuosic" Rondo Capriccioso.

Roseola hightower biography examples Referring to Hightower and four other famous Native American dancers that hailed from Oklahoma Maria and Marjorie Tallchief, Moscelyne Larkin, and Yvonne Chouteau , Livingston told Franklin, "They were exposed to the old dance companies that were touring the Midwest in the s and they saw something magical. Highway, Tomson. Highway Act of Monet Robier, Hightower's daughter and an instructor at the school, explained the philosophy to Caitlin Sims of Dance in this way: "The good thing about the school is that when students are trained early in different styles, it is similar to being raised speaking two languages.

In addition to classic dances, Hightower's performances included Piège de Lumière by John Taras, the troupe's choreographer and balletmaster, in which she danced the role of a butterfly in a tropical forest who enchants a group of escaped convicts.^[2]

The company disbanded after the death of de Cuevas, and Hightower largely retired from the stage, though she gave a series of performances in with Sonia Arova, Erik Bruhn and Rudolf Nureyev.

She opened the École supérieure de danse de Cannes in near her home in Cannes, which became one of Europe's leading ballet schools. Hightower later directed several major companies, including the Marseilles Ballet from to , the Ballet of the Grand Théâtre of Nancy in –74, the Paris Opéra Ballet from to and the La Scala Ballet of Milan in –

Death and legacy

Hightower was briefly married to dancer Mischa Resnikov in She married Jean Robier, a French artist and designer, in ; they had one daughter, dancer Dominique Monet Robier (b.

).^[2] She was found in her home in Cannes, France on November 4, , aged 88, having died either earlier that morning or late the previous night. She had suffered a series of strokes.^[2]

Hightower is honored alongside four other Native American ballerinas (Yvonne Chouteau, Moscelyne Larkin, Maria Tallchief and Marjorie Tallchief), with a larger than life-size bronze statue, The Five Moons in the garden of the in Tulsa Historical Society.^[2] She stands alongside the four depicted in "Flight of Spirit," a mural in the Oklahoma Capitol building.

Short biography examples About this article Hightower, Rosella Updated About encyclopedia. The thenyear-old Hightower tracked him down after a performance and convinced him to allow her to audition. The other two instructors she liked were Massine, Balanchine and Caton. We could study and read in our room, were allowed to stay up later than the younger students, and could have a half hour longer in bed in the mornings

A portrait of her hangs among other famous Choctaw individuals in the Choctaw Capitol museum in Tuskahoma. In , the French government named her a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, the country’s premier honor for her services to the opera and ballet.^[5]

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