Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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Genée , Dame Adeline ( Anina Jensen ) ballerina , b . Aarhus , Jutland , Denmark , 1878. Studied with her aunt and uncle , M. and Mme . Alexandre Genée . Made de but age ten in Christiania ( now Oslo ) , Norway , dancing a polka . When her uncle took over the management of the Central hallen Theater in Stettin , Germany , she was engaged as dancer , often being given principal roles . In 1895 danced the leading role ( created for Maria Taglioni ) in Rob ert the Devil at Stadttheater , Stettin . The following year made her debut at the Ber lin Opera , also dancing the same year in Munich where she danced her first Swa nilda in Coppélia ( Nov. 21 , 1896 ) , the role with which she was ever after identi fied . Made her debut at the Empire Thea tre , London , Nov. 22 , 1897 , and from then on became to all intents and purposes a British ballerina for , though engaged for only a few weeks , Genée remained for ten years and later made return appearances . During this period she appeared with the Royal Danish Ballet ( 1902 ) , dancing Cop pélia and Flower Festival at Genzano with Hans Beck . Her repertoire at the Empire included The Press , Les Papillons , High Jinks , The Dancing Doll , Cinderella , Fête Galante , The Dryad , and others , and , above all , Coppélia , revived especially for her ( 1906 ) . Made her U.S. debut in The Soul Kiss , New York Theatre , 1907. After five seasons in U.S. with her own company , producing La Danse and dancing Cop pélia at the Metropolitan Opera she returned to England ( 1910 ) and mar . ried Frank Isitt . Appeared at the Coliseum in Butterflies and Roses ( 1911 ) ; Camargo ( 1912 ) , Robert the Devil ( 1914 ) , La Danse ( 1915 ) , The Pretty Prentice ( 1916 ) , and at the Alhambra ( 1916 ) . She also visited Australia and New Zealand ( 1913 ) . Genée made her farewell appearance in 1917 at the Coliseum . She was persuaded out of her retirement to appear in a suite of old dances ( called The Love Song ) for a charity matinee , June 7 , 1932 ; repeated it in Copenhagen went she went there with a troupe of English dancers Sept. 24-28 , dancing it at the final performance in the presence of the King and Queen of Denmark and the Prince of Wales ( now the Duke of Windsor ) , and finally danc ing it for a season at the Coliseum in Feb. , 1933. Anton Dolin was her partner . In 1920 Adeline Genée was elected Founder President of the Association of Operatic Dancing in London , and in 1935 the Asso ciation was granted a Royal Charter and became the Royal Academy of Dancing . She retired from the presidency in 1954 . She was also a founder member of the Camargo Society ( 1930–33 ) . In 1935 she received the Order of Ingenii et Arti ( M.I. et A. ) from the King of Denmark ; shortly after World War II King Chris tian X awarded her the Medal of Liberty in acknowledgment of her efforts to re store Anglo - Danish relations ; and in 1953 King Frederik IX created her a Com mander of the Order of Dannebrog . In 1950 she was created Dame of the Order of the British Empire ( D.B.E. ) for her services to dancing in England . ise HO .