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Phyllis Spira
Phyllis Spira (18 October 1943 – 11 March 2008) was a South African ballet dancer who began her career with the Royal Ballet in England. Upon returning to South Africa, she spent twenty-eight years as ''prima ballerina'' of CAPAB Ballet, a professional company in Cape Town named for the Cape Performing Arts Board.〔Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell "Spira, Phyllis," in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Dance'' (Oxford University Press, 2000).〕
==Early life and training==
Born in Johannesburg, Phyllis Bernice Spira was the first daughter and second child of Lazar and Fanny Pauline (Rosen) Spira, working-class parents who lived in a modest home in the pleasant suburb of Orange Grove. When she was 4 years old, little Phyllis was enrolled in ballet classes, where, even at that tender age, she showed talent for dancing. After attending a Hebrew nursery school, she was educated at Orange Grove Primary School and Waverly High School for Girls, where ballet classes and training for eisteddfods were extracurricular activities. When she was 15, her headmistress, recognizing her exceptional talent, obtained official permission for her to leave school at the end of the tenth grade to pursue her dance training. Soon thereafter, she was offered a chance to attend the Royal Ballet School in London. Despite her parents' concern at the prospect of their teenage daughter living alone in a great foreign city, she was allowed to take the chance.〔Milton Shain and Miriam Pimstone, "Phyllis Spira," Jewish Women's Archive, website, http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/spira-phyllis. Retrieved 22 November 2015.〕
Having arrived in London in May 1959, Spira began training at the Royal Ballet School when she was just 16. Her special qualities of movement soon caused favorable comment. Ninette de Valois, director of the school, referred to her as "a baby Markova," comparing her to the famous British ballerina Alicia Markova.〔Amanda Botha, ''Phyllis Spira: A Tribute'' (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1988), p. 1.〕 Awarded a scholarship, Spira progressed quickly through the course of study. After only a few months, she made her debut in a performance of ''Swan Lake'' at Covent Garden, dancing in the ''pas de trois'' in act 1, as a cygnet in acts 2 and 4, and in the Neapolitan Dance in act 3. Thereupon she was invited to join the Royal Ballet touring company. She was 17 years old at the time.
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