Ludmilla Schollar

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Léon Bakst : Figurine of Estrella in the Carnaval ballet . Costume design for Ludmilla Schollar (1910)
L. Schollar announced as soloist in the Ballets Russes (1913)

Ludmilla Schollar , also Lyudmila Frantzevna Shollar ( Russian Людмила Францевна Шоллар ; born March 15, 1888 in St. Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † July 10, 1978 in San Francisco ) was a Russian ballet dancer.

Life

Ludmilla Schollar trained at the Imperial Ballet School with Michel Fokine and graduated in 1906 as a solo dancer at the Mariinsky Theater , where she was engaged until 1914. Between 1909 and 1914 she was repeatedly a member of the Ballets Russes Sergei Djagilews , which made regular tours through Western Europe.

With Fokine, Schollar danced a solo role in Cléopâtre (1909), the Estrella in Carnaval (1910), the street dancer in Petrushka (1911), an odalisque in Shéhérazade (1913) and a butterfly in Les Papillons (1914).

Karsawina, Nijinsky and Schollar in "Jeux"
Charles Gerschel
Photo in the Illustrated London News , June 28, 1913, p. 970

Link to the picture
(please note copyrights )

Since Bronislava Nijinska was pregnant in 1913, Schollar received the role of second tennis player alongside Tamara Karsawina in Vaslav Nijinsky's world premiere choreography of Claude Debussy's three-person play Jeux (1913).

During the First World War she worked as a nurse for the Red Cross, was wounded and received the Russian St. George's Medal. In 1917 she returned to Russia. She worked again at the Mariinsky Theater during the civil war until 1921.

In 1921 Schollar married the dancer Anatole Vilzak , who was hired as a solo dancer with Djagilev's Ballets Russes, and they went back to Western Europe. In 1921 she danced the role of "White Cat" in Sleeping Beauty in the London production of Ballets Russes in the choreography by Marius Petipa and Nikolai Sergejew . The engagement ended in 1925 with a wage strike by the dancers. Both moved to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1926/27 . In the following years she danced in the ballet companies of Ida Rubinstein and Bronislava Nijinska . In 1934/35 they made a tour with the Dandré-Levitoff Russian Ballet to Australia .

From 1935 on, both worked as ballet teachers in New York City , from 1936 to 1940 at the School of American Ballet and then in their own ballet school. In 1963 they went to the Washington School of Ballet and from 1965 they worked at the San Francisco Ballet School . In 1977 she retired from working life.

In Herbert Ross's 1980 film biography Nijinsky , Schollar was portrayed by the British dancer Genesia Rosato.

Documents (selection)

literature

  • Janice Ross: Schollar, Ludmilla , in: American National Biography , Volume 19, 1999 doi , not viewed
  • Schollar, Ludmila , in: Carmen Paris; Javier Bayo (Ed.): Diccionario biográfico de la danza . Madrid: Librerías Deportivas E. Sanz, 1997, p. 295

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michelle Potter: Ludmilla Schollar in Australia
  2. ↑ Nijinsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Schollar, Ludmilla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shollar, Lyudmila Frantzevna; Шоллар, Людмила Францевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION russian ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1978
Place of death San Francisco