Friderica Derra de Moroda
Friderica Derra de Moroda (born June 2, 1897 in Preßburg , Kingdom of Hungary, † June 19, 1978 in Salzburg ) was a British dancer, choreographer and dance teacher of Austro-Hungarian origin.
Career
As the daughter of a Greek writer and a Hungarian art historian, the family moved to Munich after the death of their father. After studying ballet, she made her debut as a freelance dancer in the Vienna Secession on February 22, 1912 at the age of 14 .
From 1914 she was in England and founded her first dance school in London . From 1918 onwards she received lessons from Enrico Cecchetti for four years and then appeared for the first time in Salzburg in 1923: a solo dance evening in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum delighted the audience. In 1936 she took English citizenship.
In 1941 she took over the management and artistic responsibility of the ballet of the National Socialist cultural organization Kraft durch Freude , which toured regularly until 1944. Towards the end of the war, Moroda was interned as an English citizen in a camp on Lake Constance.
After the death of her sister Minka in December 1950, Friderica inherited the Villa Schmederer from her sister and established a ballet school there in 1952, which she ran until 1967 and which mainly included the members of the ballet from the Salzburg State Theater , but also the later solo dancer Margot Werner visited.
From 1960 she devoted herself more to dance research and built up an extensive library of dance-specific literature. The estate of the Derra de Moroda Dance Archive is accessible to the public at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Salzburg .
On June 15, 1977, she was the first woman ever to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg .
Derra-de-Moroda-Strasse in the Parsch district of Salzburg has been named after her since 1982 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Derra de Moroda, Friderica |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-British dancer, dance teacher, dance scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1978 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |