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Nadia Nerina
Nadia Nerina (21 October 1927 – 6 October 2008) was a South African dancer who was "one of the most gifted, versatile, and inspiring ballerinas of The Royal Ballet" during the 1950s and 1960s.〔Mary Clarke, "Nadia Nerina," obituary, ''The Guardian'' (London), 7 October 2008.〕 She was known "for her technical virtuosity, lightness afoot, effortless-seeming jumps, and joyful charm onstage, especially in comedic roles."〔Bruce Weber, "Nadia Nerina, Royal Ballet Dancer, Is Dead at 80," obituary, ''New York Times'', 11 October 2008.〕
==Early life and training==
Born as Nadine Judd in Bloemfontein, the provincial capital of the Orange Free State (now Free State Province) in central South Africa, she was a descendant of British settlers who had immigrated to the diamond-rich area in search of a new life. Her parents, who were in the English-speaking minority of the city, where Afrikaans was the official language, encouraged her childhood interest in theater. Her first stage appearance was at the age of 8 or 9, when she appeared as Cio-Cio San's child in a local production of ''Madama Butterfly''. Her serious study of dance did not come until after her parents moved the family to Durban, the major city in the coastal province of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). There she studied drama with Elizabeth Sneddon at Natal University, ballet with Eileen Keegan, a gifted teacher who had danced with Anna Pavlova's company, and stagecraft and mime with Dorothea McNair.〔Marina Grut, "Nerina, Nadia," in ''The History of Ballet in South Africa'' (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1981), p. 398.〕 Keegan is credited with laying the foundations of Nerina's strong classical ballet technique.〔Clarke, "Nadia Nerina," obituary, 7 October 2008.〕 After Judd's mother died, while she was in her early teens, her teachers advised her father to send their talented pupil to England for further instruction.
In 1945, not long after World War II had ended in Europe, Mr. Judd arranged passage for his daughter on a ship sailing from Cape Town to Southampton. She was 17 or 18 at the time. Once settled in London, with aspirations to join Ballet Rambert, she sought out and took classes with Marie Rambert, who befriended her and encouraged her. She then went on to the Sadler's Wells Ballet School, under the direction of Ninette de Valois, and to the studio of Elsa Brunelleschi, where she studied Spanish dancing.〔Grut, "Nerina, Nadia," in ''The History of Ballet in South Africa'' (1981), p. 398.〕 While still a student at Sadler's Wells, she appeared as a nursemaid to the baby Princess Aurora in the famous production of ''The Sleeping Beauty'' mounted for the reopening of the Royal Opera House on 20 February 1946.〔Clarke, "Nadia Nerina," obituary, 7 October 2008.〕 The following summer, intent on improving her classical technique, she went to Paris with her friend Elaine Fifield, to study with Olga Preobrajenska, a former star of the Russian Imperial Ballet in Saint Petersburg.
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