Zippora karz biography

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Zippora Karz is a former soloist ballerina with the New York City Ballet where she performed for 16 years on stage and in televised performances.
ZIPPORA KARZ, former soloist with the New York City Ballet, danced with the company from 1983 - 1999.

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Zippora Karz is a former soloist ballerina with the New York City Ballet where she performed for 16 years on stage and in televised performances. She was featured in a variety of roles choreographed by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins as well as works choreographed for her by such choreographers as Peter Martins and Lynne Taylor Corbett.Miss Karz danced with the New York City Ballet from 1983 through 1999. She now serves as a teacher and repetiteur for the George Balanchine Trust, rehearsing and staging Balanchine’s choreography for a host of national and international dance companies. She is also a diabetes spokesperson and educator who regularly addresses major diabetes conferences and organizations worldwide.

Zippora’s memoir “The Sugarless Plum” has inspired people all over the world to live happy and healthy lives. “The Sugarless Plum” is now translated in Slovenian.

Zippora also authored a children’s book, “Ballerina Dreams.” The story teaches children, with and without Diabetes, that they should not give up on their dreams no matter what challenges they face.

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Zippora Karz

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Zippora Karz is a former soloist ballerina with the New York City Ballet where she performed for 16 years on stage and in televised performances. She was featured in a variety of roles choreographed by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins (The Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker being one of her favorites) as well as works choreographed for her by such choreographers as Peter Martins and Lynne Taylor Corbett. Miss Karz danced with the New York City Ballet from 1983 through 1999. She now serves as a teacher and repetiteur for the George Balanchine Trust, rehearsing and staging Balanchine’s choreography for a host of national and international dance companies. She is also a diabetes spokesperson and educator who regularly addresses major diabetes conferences and organizations worldwide. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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The Sugarless Plum, February 2011
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The Sugarless Plu
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A Conversation with Balanchine Repetiteur, Zippora Karz
How do you decide what part of the ballet to dissect and teach first? Do you always start at the very beginning or sometimes tackle a more difficult part first?
Just in general, as a stager, what I usually like to do is I have to cast the hardest part first. The first thing, for Serenade, I need to do is cast the Russian girl, because somebody might be perfect for the Waltz girl, but if no body can do the steps of the Russian girl then... I like to cast the most technical, challenging part first because in Balanchine ballets you’re going to have artistic moments- it's not like there’s one artistic part and one part is just technical. Even the technical part is going to require artistry. So it’s not like somebody’s losing out, we just have to find out who can technically do the challenges of certain parts that maybe have more turns or jumps, because people will be a better jumper or turner. So what I like to do of all of the people who are a potential of a certain part, I teach them all, and then I like to see and look. T