...This chapter discusses the teaching of two Italian instructors: Malvina Cavallazzi and Luigi Albertieri. Cavallazzi was the first ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera and the first director of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School when it opened in 1909. At the helm of the first American ballet...

... professors were refugees from the Holocaust, to her brief time in a show, Goldilocks on Broadway with Agnes de Mille and as a Soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet when Antony Tudor was Director of Ballet, and soon after, her discovery of her Jewishness and Zionism, as well as her...