Throwback Thursday and Harriet Toby
Harriet Joan Katzman was an American
dancer born in Paris in 1929. She began her dance studies with Alexandre
Volinine, then with Ludmilla Shollar, Anatole Vilzak and at SAB in New York.
Using her mother’s maiden name, she made
her debut in the Markova-Dolin ballet The
Seven Lively Arts revue in 1944. In 1946 she joined the Ballet Russes de
Monte Carlo, and in 1948 Roland Petit’s Ballets de Paris. In 1949 she became a
leading soloist with the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas.
On March 3, 1952, Toby and 36 others
were killed in a plane crash when their flight from Nice, France ran into a flock
of migratory birds. In a final irony, the last ballet she danced (the night
before) was the Spanish ballet Of Love
and Death.
Harriet Toby is buried in Paris at
Cimetière deu
Père Lachaise.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Factoid #130:
“ Harriet Toby was a
dancer/actress who died in a plane crash.”
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Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you.
Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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