Madeleine Rosay
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Born | 12 October 1924 |
Died | 1996 |
Nationality | Brazil |
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Madeleine Rosay born Magdalena Rosenzveig (12 October 1924 – 1996) was a Brazilian ballet dancer and TV presenter.
Life[]
Rosay was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1924. She started to learn to dance at the age of seven under . Within four years she was a member of the Theatro Municipal's Academy of Ballet's as a salaried dancer.[1] Her parents were not keen that when she became a professional ballet dancer but they agreed to her arguments of how artistic it was. She was a prima ballerina at the age of fifteen.[2]
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She went on to teach at the Theatro Municipal where her students included the singer Sylvia Telles.[3] In 1942 she appeared in an advertisement for Palmolive soap.
In 1947 she married and her husband objected to her dancing. Rosay created a new career in television. She went on to host a version of "What's My Line" which was called "Guess what it does"[4] and it started in Brazil in 1953. She was later the presenter of the programme "Break the Bank".[4]
Rosay died in Rio de Janeiro in 1966.
Legacy[]
There is a ballet school in Brazil which is named for Rosay.[5]
Films[]
- Bonequinha de Seda (1936)[6]
- (1947)[6]
- (1956)
References[]
- ^ Dancing Times. Dancing Times. 1940. p. 541.
- ^ Karla Carloni (2013). "Representação do Nacional (1930-1945): o ballet e o popular na cidade do Rio de Janeiro". Anpuh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
- ^ Ruy Castro (April 2012). Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World. Chicago Review Press. pp. 38–. ISBN 978-1-61374-574-8.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Brazilian Business. Published jointly by the American Chambers of Commerce for Brazil. 1954. p. 24.
- ^ "Centro de Artes Madeleine Rosay". www.madeleinerosay.com. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Abreu, Antônio (1996-04-29). "Uma de nossas grandes damas do balé". Tribuna da Imprensa (14110): 2.
Caderno "Tribuna Bis", seção "Cadê Você/Madeleine Rosay" (disponível na Hemeroteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional)
- 1924 births
- 1996 deaths
- People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
- 20th-century ballet dancers