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Tilly Losch dancing with  Fred Astaire

Stage Name

Birth Name

Tilly Losch Ottilie Ethel Losch

Tilly Losch was an established dancer and actress, she was titled the 'Countess of Carnarvon'. Danced in many children's parts in all repertory ballets and Operas. She studied her dancing at the Vienna Imperial Opera ballet school at the age of six. Tilly became a full member of the ballet corps at the unusually young age of fifteen,

Tilly made her professional debut in Vienna Waltzes and her first dramatic role was in 'Leonce and Lena' at Vienna's Burgtheater. Her first solo appearance was at the Operntheater in Vienna in the 5/9/1924 ballet 'Schlagobers,' and by the time she was twenty was one of Vienna's most popular dancers. Made her London debut with 'This Year of Grace' in 1928.

Losch stayed with the Vienna Opera untill she came to the U.S. (1927-1928) and gave various dance recitals in Central Europe. She Met Harold Kreutzberg that same summer and would work for him many times. Later she meet George Ballanchine and danced as a Ballerina in his 1933 Ballets. Went on to dance and choreograph many plays and movies. Also danced with Fred Astaire (picture on

left) but she was never the exhibitionist, she was always shy, on-Stage and off.

Following a bout of depression, Tilly discontinued her dancing career, but soon felt the need for expression in another artistic medium. Having first tried her hand at watercolors, she began to paint seriously. The first one-person exhibition of her paintings, held at New York's Bignou Gallery in the spring of 1944. Tilly's second marriage was to the son of the world famous discoverer of King Tutankhamen's tomb, Earl of Carnarvon and almost overnight became Lady Carnarvon, an English Countess.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Vienna, Austria 11/15/1907 - 12/24/1975 Edward James n/a
            Earl of Carnarvon      
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Ballet Fred Astaire Beggars Waltz (w/Astaire)
Hand Dance (her celebrated) Harold Kreutzberg Dancing In The Dark
Waltz Laurent Novikoff      
      Lottie Lenya      
      Reinhardt      
      Sergi Ismailoff      
      Tamara Toumanova      
 

Ballets

Theaters etc

Stage

1924 - Schlagobers American Ballet 1931 - Band Wagon
1927 - Midsummer Nights Dream Ballet Theater Group 1931 - The Gang's All Here
1928 - This Year In Grace Ballet Russe (w/Toumanova) 1932 - The Miracle (acted)
1929 - Wake Up and Dream Burgtheater 1935 - Streamline 
1932 - Die Fledermaus Columbus Circle Theater 1936 - Gardens Of Allah 
1933 - Balanchine's Ballets Covent Garden 1938 - Everyman (Chor)
1933 - Les Ballets (by James) Imperial Opera ballet school Danton's Death (Chor)
1934 - The Seven Deadly Sins of ... Operntheater Servant of Two Masters
   
1947 - Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo            
Goyescas            
 

Films

Television

(Other)

1931 - The Gangs All Here n/a 5/1930 - Dance Magazine
$1936 - Garden of Allah (as Irena)       1949 - Dance Encyclopedia (Chujoy)
$1938 - The Good Earth (as Lotus)       8/1953 - Vogue Magazine
$1945 - Duel In The Sun (as Chavez)       1983 - Joseph Cornell and the Ballet
$1946 - Song of Scheherazade (Chor)            
NOTE:Link: Birmingham University Bios
August 14, 2007
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