Anna marie holmes biography of martin
In Conversation with Anna-Marie Holmes, Former Ballerina, now turned Choreographer who is staging Le Corsaire for English National Ballet....
Anna-Marie Holmes
Canadian-born ballet dancer, educator and choreographer
Anna-Marie Holmes (born April 17, 1942) is a Canadian-born ballet dancer, educator and choreographer.
ANNA-MARIE HOLMES was Boston Ballet's Artistic Director from – and acted as Dean of Faculty of the Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education.
Holmes received an Emmy Award in 2000 for her staging of Le Corsaire for PBS. She was the founder and co-artistic director for the International Academy of Dance Costa do Sol in Portugal.
Early life and education
She was born to George Ellerbeck and Maxine Botterill, as Anna-Marie Ellerbeck, in Mission City, British Columbia.
She studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and ballet with Heino Heiden [de] and Lydia Karpova in Vancouver, with Wynne Shaw in Victoria, with Audrey de Vos and Errol Addison in London, with Felia Doubrovska in New York City, with Natalia Dudinskaya in Leningrad and with Karel Shook in Amsterdam.[1]
Career
Holmes was a soloist with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet from 1960 to 1962 and a guest performer with the Kirov Ballet during the