Stanislava Brezovar

Stanislava Brezovar (7 November 1937 – 18 December 2003), married name Kleiber, was a Slovenian ballerina. She was also known as Stanka Brezovar.

Born in Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia, she studied to be a Germanist, but her primary love was ballet. She studied ballet in Düsseldorf. It was there that she met and married the German-born conductor Carlos Kleiber. They are buried together in the Slovenian village of Konjšica near Litija. ["Obituary section: Kleiber, Carlos" "Current Biography Yearbook" 2004 edition, H.W. Wilson Co., New York, p. 650;] She was survived by a son, Marko, and a daughter, Lillian.

In 1955, at the age of 18, she starred in the movie "Ples čarovnic" (Dance Of The Witches) a Triglav Film production in Slovenian. [imdb title|id=0323658|title=Ples carovnic] The movie was a tour-de-force, 452 minutes of ballet to the "Ples čarovnic" symphonic poem by Blaž Arnič with choreography by Pia and
Pino Mlakar. [ [http://www.film-sklad.si/client.si/index.php?formID=183&ID=253 "Ples čarovnic" Slovenian Film Fund (Zbirka slovenskega filma)] ;]

References

::"This article is based in part on material from the Slovenian Wikipedia".

External links

* [http://www.litija.net/konjsica/konjsica09.html "Stanislava Brezovar Kleiber"] brief biography from her hometown webpage in Slovenian;