Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon (née Losch;
November , â€" December , ), known professionally as Tilly Losch, was
an Austrian dancer, choreographer, actress, and painter who lived and
worked for most of her life in the United States and United
Kingdom.Born in Vienna to a Jewish family, Losch studied ballet from
childhood at the Vienna Opera, making her debut in in Louis
Frappart's Wiener Walzer. She became a member of the corps de ballet
on March , and a coryphee three years later. Her first solo role was
the Chinese Lady Doll in Josef Hassreiter's Die Puppenfee. Ballet
master Heinrich Kroeller and the Opera's co-director, composer Richard
Strauss, promoted her to soloist on January , . She danced prominently
in new ballets by Kroeller, Georgi Kyaksht, and Nicola Guerra. Outside
the Opera, Losch took modern dance class with Grete Wiesenthal and
Mary Wigman, and performed dramatic and movement roles in Viennese
theaters, at the Salzburg Festival and in Max Reinhardt's Berlin
production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, also choreographing the
William Shakespeare play. Losch resigned from the Vienna Opera on
August , , in order to work more with Reinhardt at the Salzburg
Festival and in New York City. She also choreographed Reinhardt's
Everyman and Danton's Death.Losch made her London debut in in
Cochran's production of Noël Coward's musical revue This Year of
Grace, and over the course of the next few years, worked in London and
New York as both a dancer and choreographer. In New York she danced in
The Band Wagon with Fred and Adele Astaire in . Reinhardt encouraged
her to extend herself and believed she could also act; casting her in
a London production of The Miracle, Losch's part was rewritten to
provide her with the only spoken dialogue in the production (The
Lord's Prayer) which she recited to dramatic effect.
November , â€" December , ), known professionally as Tilly Losch, was
an Austrian dancer, choreographer, actress, and painter who lived and
worked for most of her life in the United States and United
Kingdom.Born in Vienna to a Jewish family, Losch studied ballet from
childhood at the Vienna Opera, making her debut in in Louis
Frappart's Wiener Walzer. She became a member of the corps de ballet
on March , and a coryphee three years later. Her first solo role was
the Chinese Lady Doll in Josef Hassreiter's Die Puppenfee. Ballet
master Heinrich Kroeller and the Opera's co-director, composer Richard
Strauss, promoted her to soloist on January , . She danced prominently
in new ballets by Kroeller, Georgi Kyaksht, and Nicola Guerra. Outside
the Opera, Losch took modern dance class with Grete Wiesenthal and
Mary Wigman, and performed dramatic and movement roles in Viennese
theaters, at the Salzburg Festival and in Max Reinhardt's Berlin
production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, also choreographing the
William Shakespeare play. Losch resigned from the Vienna Opera on
August , , in order to work more with Reinhardt at the Salzburg
Festival and in New York City. She also choreographed Reinhardt's
Everyman and Danton's Death.Losch made her London debut in in
Cochran's production of Noël Coward's musical revue This Year of
Grace, and over the course of the next few years, worked in London and
New York as both a dancer and choreographer. In New York she danced in
The Band Wagon with Fred and Adele Astaire in . Reinhardt encouraged
her to extend herself and believed she could also act; casting her in
a London production of The Miracle, Losch's part was rewritten to
provide her with the only spoken dialogue in the production (The
Lord's Prayer) which she recited to dramatic effect.
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