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Yvonne Mounsey
Yvonne Mounsey (September 1919 – 29 September 2012,) was a South African ballet dancer and teacher. Described as "a dancer of glamour, wit, and striking presence,"〔Alistair Macauley, "Yvonne Mounsey, City Ballet Dancer and a Teacher, Dies at 93," obituary, ''New York Times'', 2 October 2012.〕 she spent ten years with the New York City Ballet (1949-1959), where she created important roles in the works of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She was then instrumental in the formation of the Johannesbug City Ballet and was influential as an instructor at her own school in Santa Monica, California.〔Horst Koegler, "Mounsey, Yvonne," in 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet'' (Oxford University Press, 1982).〕
==Early life and training==
Yvonne Louise Leibbrandt was born on a dairy farm on the outskirts of Pretoria (now Tshwane), a major city in the northern province of Transvaal (now Gauteng). She was the middle of three children born to her parents, who bore a ancient German surname and who spoke both Afrikaans and English, as did many residents of Pretoria at the time. Yvonne was raised to be fluent in both languages. When she entered primary school at age 6 or 7, she also began taking ballet classes with a local teacher who had been a member of Anna Pavlova's touring company in Europe. She soon conceived a passion for dancing, and throughout her young years she begged her parents to send her to England for further training. Her parents were not wealthy but by 1937, when she was 16, they had saved enough money to grant her wishes.〔Laura Bleiberg, "Yvonne Mounsey Dies at 93, Westside School of Ballet Director," obituary, ''Los Angeles Times'', 3 October 2012.〕
After a long ocean voyage, Leibbrandt arrived in England and went directly to London. There, she attended technique classes in the studio of Igor Schwezoff before going to Paris to study with famed Russian teachers Olga Preobrajenska and Lubov Egorova.〔Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell, "Mounsey, Yvonne," in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Dance'' (Oxford University Press, 2000).〕 Back in London, she found her first dancing job with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, which presented operas in English in London and the British provinces. Having grown too tall for the current standard of British ballerinas—she stood more than six feet on pointe—she auditioned, successfully, for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, formed in 1937 by Léonide Massine and René Blum after a falling-out with Colonel Wassily de Basil over rights to works created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.〔Judith Chazin Bennahum, ''René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).〕
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