Trudl Dubsky
{{Short description|Austrian-American innovative dancer, choreographer and teacher}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Trudl Dubsky
| birth_name = Gertruda Rosa Josefine Dubsky
| birth_date = {{birth-date|31 January 1913}}
| birth_place = Vienna
| death_date = {{death date and age|3 July 1976|31 January 1913}}
| death_place = Los Angeles
| occupation = Dancer, dance educator, visual artist
| spouse = Herbert Zipper (married 1939)
}}
Trudl Dubsky Zipper (31 January 1913 – 3 July 1976), born Gertruda Dubsky, was an Austrian-American innovative dancer, choreographer and teacher.
Early life and education
Gertruda Rosa Josefine Dubsky was born in Vienna, the daughter of Wilhelm Josef Dubsky and Maria Theresia Dubsky. She trained and performed with the Bodenwieser School and was renowned for her dynamic modern dancing and high leaps.
Career
In 1932, with fellow Bodenwieser student Jeanette Rutherston, Dubsky co-founded the Rutherston-Dubsky School in London. She moved to the Philippines in 1937, to dance and teach. She founded the Manila Ballet Moderne during her time there.{{Cite book|last1=Vernon-Warren|first1=Bettina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqJlAgAAQBAJ&dq=Trudl+Dubsky&pg=PA92|title=Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna's Contribution to Ausdruckstanz|last2=Warren|first2=Charles|date=2013-12-19|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-42366-8|pages=92–93|language=en}}Beltran Lucila, Ida. [https://ncca.gov.ph/about-ncca-3/subcommissions/subcommission-on-the-arts-sca/dance/choreographers-in-philippine-dance/ "Choreographers in Philippine Dance"] National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Republic of the Philippines.
Dubsky was also an accomplished visual artist and her paintings of Manila during the Japanese occupation were published in Life magazine. Her husband later published a book of her watercolor paintings, Manila 1944-1945 As Trudl Saw It (1994), about those wartime experiences.{{Cite book|last1=Zipper|first1=Trudl Dubsky|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G41xAAAAMAAJ|title=Manila 1944-45 as Trudl saw it: watercolors of Trudl Dubsky Zipper|last2=Zipper|first2=Herbert|date=1994|publisher=Crossroads School in cooperation with Herbert Zipper|isbn=9780964450400|language=en}} They left the Philippines in 1946,{{Cite web|url=https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/modern-living/2012/01/21/769423/loving-zippers|title=Loving the Zippers|last=Alcazaren|first=Paulo|website=philstar.com|access-date=2020-04-15}} but her husband returned several summers to conduct the Manila Symphony Orchestra; in 1967 both Zippers were honored for their contributions to the arts in Manila.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48761173/winnetka-couple-honored-in-manila/|title=Winnetka Couple Honored in Manila|date=1967-07-30|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2020-04-15|pages=313|via=Newspapers.com}}File:Trudl Dubsky and Herbert Zipper memorial plaque.jpg, Los Angeles]]Dubsky continued as a teacher and choreographer throughout her life, including at her studio in Brooklyn,{{Cite news|last=Davis|first=Ruth G.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48760799/contemporary-comment-dancing-pupils/|title=Contemporary Comment; Dancing Pupils Expressing Themselves|date=1948-12-31|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=2020-04-15|pages=9|via=Newspapers.com}} at Erwin Piscator's theatre workshop in New York, at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, with the North Shore Dance Group,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48761032/north-shore-dance-group-sets-recital/|title=North Shore Dance Group Sets Recital|date=1959-05-10|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2020-04-15|pages=107|via=Newspapers.com}} and later at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Personal life and legacy
Dubsky married the Viennese pianist and composer Herbert Zipper,{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Dinitia|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/23/arts/herbert-zipper-92-founder-of-secret-orchestra-at-dachau.html|title=Herbert Zipper, 92, Founder Of Secret Orchestra at Dachau|date=1997-04-23|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-04-15|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} in the Philippines in 1939.{{Cite book|last=Ephraim|first=Frank|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jdo9V9Y1ofcC&dq=Trudl+Dubsky&pg=PA56|title=Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror|date=2003-08-12|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-02845-8|pages=56|language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Kellie D. |title=The sound of hope: Music as solace, resistance and salvation during the holocaust and world war II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DX7pDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73 |publisher=McFarland |year=2020 |isbn=978-1476670560 |pages=73}} She died from lung cancer in Los Angeles in 1976, aged 63 years. The Dance Institute at the Colburn School was renamed the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute in 2008, after a large anonymous donation in her memory.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-21-et-colburn21-story.html |first1=Chris |last1=Pasles |title=Colburn Dance Institute gets $9-million donation|date=2008-06-21|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-15 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324020335/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-21-et-colburn21-story.html |archive-date= Mar 24, 2024 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Performing-Arts-School/202941/ |url-access=registration |title=Performing-Arts School Receives Anonymous $9-Million|date=2008-06-24|website=The Chronicle of Philanthropy|access-date=2020-04-15 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240324024658/https://www.philanthropy.com/article/performing-arts-school-receives-anonymous-9-million/ |archive-date= 24 Mar 2024 }} The Herbert Zipper Archives at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California contain the couple's papers.{{Cite web|url=http://www.xrds.org/page/news?pk=889738|title=Students Extend Crossroads Dance Legacy|date=2016-11-09|website=Crossroads School|language=en|access-date=2020-04-15 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324025207/https://www.xrds.org/news?pk=889738 |archive-date= Mar 24, 2024 }}{{Cite news|last=Groves|first=Martha|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48759658/a-ghastly-past-an-exalted-lifemartha/ |via=Newspapers.com |title=A Ghastly Past, an Exalted Life|date=2007-04-21|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=2020-04-15|pages=54 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240324030206/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-a-ghastly-past-an/48759658/ |archive-date= 24 Mar 2024 }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/--Trudl-dubsky-Bookplate--/BBE72CFC6FDAD5ED Trudl Dubsky's bookplate], designed before 1937 by Arthur Paunzen; at MutualArt.
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Category:Austrian female dancers
Category:Austrian choreographers
Category:Austrian women choreographers