Irène Popard

Irène Popard was born on 30 September 1894 in Paris. She completed her studies at the University of Boston.{{cite book |last= Lionel Haskell |first= Arnold |author-link= |date= 1951|title= The Ballet Annual: A Record and Year Book of the Ballet, Volume 5| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JKBFAQAAIAAJ|access-date= 19 April 2022|location= London| publisher= Adam and Charles Black| page= 46| isbn= }} On her return to Paris, she started studying pure gymnastics, and became a teacher of physical education.{{cite book |last= Robinson|first= Jacqueline |author-link= |date= 4 July 2013|title= Modern Dance in France (1920-1970): An Adventure| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=j1w9XT-vNRwC|access-date= 19 April 2022|location= Oxon | publisher= Routledge | page= 84| isbn= 978-1-134-39678-8}}

She was a student of Georges Demenÿ, who was “a pioneer of a more natural form of gymnastics.” According to Sharma, she took Demenÿ's “basic exercises and designed an outstanding educational and corrective programme for women.”{{cite book |last= Sharma |first= S. R. |author-link= |date= 1994|title= Encyclopaedia of Sports Health and Physical Education| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=07fgW0hAc6sC|access-date= 19 April 2022|location= New Delhi| publisher= Mittal Publications | page= 364| isbn= 978-8-170-99564-7}} In 1916 she started 'school of Popard gymnastics' through which she introduced ‘harmonic gymnastics'.{{cite book |last= Ross Dickinson |first= Edward |author-link= |date= 27 July 2017 |title= Dancing in the Blood: Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YbMpDwAAQBAJ|access-date= 19 April 2022|location= Cambridge | publisher= Cambridge University Press | page= 238| isbn= 978-1-107-19622-3}}{{cite book |last= Lynn Stewart |first= Mary |author-link= |date= 2001|title= For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xNMerfh17kAC|access-date= 19 April 2022|location= Baltimore | publisher= JHU Press| page= 162| isbn= 978-0-801-86483-4}}

She died on 30 April 1950 in Marcigny.

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