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Olga Sławska (born Olga Prorubnikow-Lipczyńska; 2 June 1915 – 29 April 1991) was a Polish ballet dancer and choreographer. After 1945, she became one of the country's leading ballet teachers. She was a founder of the National Ballet School (Szkoła Baletowa) in Poznań.
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Olga Sławska (born Olga Prorubnikow-Lipczyńska; 2 June 1915 – 29 April 1991) was a Polish ballet dancer and choreographer. After 1945, she became one of the country's leading ballet teachers. She was a founder of the National Ballet School (Szkoła Baletowa) in Poznań.
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Biography Olga Prorubnikow-Lipczyńska was born in Lviv, which at that time was the principal city of Galicia, a frontier region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was widely regarded as a Polish city and after 1918 most of the German minority left as Lviv was incorporated into the newly re-established Polish Republic. Olga Prorubnikow's decision to become a dancer came early, and when she was seven she became a pupil at the Warsaw Ballet School, attached to the Grand Theatre. Piotr Zajlich was among her first teachers. She graduated in 1932 at which point she took "Olga Sławska" as her stage name. She worked as a soloist dancer at the Grand Theatre from 1932 till 1937, becoming a "prima ballerina" ("primabalerina") in 1935. From 1934 she was taking part, with the Warsaw Opera Company, in ballet performances of Coppélia (alternating with Barbara Karczmarewicz in the lead role as Swanildę) and Nutcracker. She was also featuring from early on in the ballet sequences incorporated into classic opera performances, including Carmen, Aida, Traviata and Faust. In 1933 she took part in the International Dance Competition held that year in Warsaw, winning a gold medal. On that occasion, she also won a special prize…