Katarzyna Bogusławska, née Fröhlich
Abstract
The author undertakes to reconstruct the biography of Katarzyna Fröhlich (1811–1886), a graduate of the Warsaw Ballet School, who honed her talent under the tutelage of Julia Mierzyńska at Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki [Grand Theatre]. She lists the dancer’s performances, including solo parts, and cites the favourable press reviews of the “solo mazur” from the ballet Wesele polskie w Ojcowie [The Polish Wedding in Ojców]. She emphasizes the vital social function of the ballet school: poor, illiterate families chose it for their children as an opportunity to learn a profession without teaching fees and acquire social capital. She notes that Fröhlich-Bogusławska’s decision to end her career as a ballet dancer resulted from her getting married. Since the autumn of 1834, she focused on her household. Her motherhood was marked by tragedy: her son Ludwik died as a child, and the other son Władysław was exiled to Siberia. Władysław survived to become a theatre critic, and his sister Zofia became a music teacher. Drawing on previously unknown sources, the author of the article verifies the date of Fröhlich-Bogusławska’s death and restores the memory about her dancing career, faded in the course of her long life.
Keywords:
ballet, ballet history, dance, dance history, Katarzyna FröhlichReferences
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Halina WaszkielTheatre Museum Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0302-6620
Halina Waszkiel – a graduate of Polish philology at the University of Warsaw. Her main research interests include dramaturgy of puppet theatre and 19th century drama and theatre. As a lecturer, she was affiliated with the University of Warsaw – Białystok Branch (1979–85) and the State Theatre School in Warsaw – Białystok Puppetry Art Department (1978–90). She was editor of the Publishing Department of the National Museum in Warsaw (1988–94). Since 1994, she has been curator and chief stocktaker of the Documents Department in the Theatre Museum. She has authored numerous editorials, including nearly twenty exhibition catalogues. Her articles can be found in Pamiętnik Teatralny, Teatr, Ruch Literacki, Dialog, Humanistyka, as well as in monographic collections.
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