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Stanislava Brezovar (7 November 1937 – 18 December 2003), married name Kleiber, was a Slovenian ballerina. She was also known as Stanka Brezovar.
Born in Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia, she studied to be a Germanist, but her primary love was ballet. She studied ballet in Düsseldorf. It was there that she met and married the German-born Austrian conductor Carlos Kleiber.
In 1955, at the age of 18, she starred in the movie Ples čarovnic (Dance of The Witches), a Triglav Film production in Slovenian.[citation needed] The movie was a tour-de-force, 452 minutes of ballet to the Ples čarovnic symphonic poem by Blaž Arnič with choreography by Pia and Pino Mlakar.[1]
Brezovar is buried together with Carlos Kleiber in the Slovenian village of Konjšica near Litija.[2]
- ^ "Ples čarovnic" Slovenian Film Fund (Zbirka slovenskega filma) Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine;
- ^ "Obituary section: Kleiber, Carlos" Current Biography Yearbook 2004 edition, H.W. Wilson Co., New York, p. 650;