My first teaching job in an open school in New York was at the Darvash school. Mdm. Gabriela Darvash, who’s teachings were close in style to my main teacher in Israel, Inese Alexandrowich, took me under her wings and gave me a place to try my hands at teaching in the Big Apple. I often replaced her when she took off on trips abroad, and eventually got my own classes to teach. The Darvash school was located on Broadway, very close to Central Park, so in clear days I would go to the Park, park myself on one of the warm-to-touch rocks and prepare my lessons. Mme. Darvash has supported me and helped me with solid advice when I opened Peridance Center and in later years was a guest Master Teacher at the center.
Biography:
World-renowned Kirov-trained teacher Madame Gabriela
Darvash was Artistic Director and resident choreographer for
the State Opera Ballet in Cluj, Roumania for 14 years. Since
1972 she has resided in New York, running her own school
from 1976 to 1988. The New York Times’ Anna Kisselgoff
and Jennifer Dunning have praised her ability to create
beautiful, strong, artistically expressive dancers. The New
York Times also quotes Mikhail Baryshnikov calling Madame
Darvash “one of the distinguished and fine ballet pedegogues
in America.” One of her students, a principal dancer with
New York City Ballet, has written “her method of teaching has
changed my life…her devotion to this method and the care
she takes with each of her students reminds me very much of
the way Mr. Balanchine used to teach his classes.”
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