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Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Olga Fricker
- Olga Fricker (July 19, 1902 – November 20, 1997) was a Canadian-born dancer, educator and choreographer.She was born in Kitchener, Ontario and trained with Amy Sternberg in Toronto.
- Fricker moved to the United States during the 1920s.
- She worked with Victoria Cassan in Detroit and took over the School of Dance at the Civic Theatre there.
- She also established the Concert Group, which performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
- She became a charter member of the Cecchetti Council of America and completed her teacher qualifying examinations in the Cechetti method with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
- Fricker moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s and opened a school there.
- Her students included Jennet Zerbe, who became a soloist with American Ballet Theatre.
- Fricker also established a Cecchetti Summer School, a Cecchetti Ballet Company for students and the California Festival Ballet company.
- In 1971, with Lucille McClure and Shiela Darby, she founded Cecchetti USA.Fricker was also the sister-in-law of author Hugh Lofting, author of the Doctor Dolittle books.
- She completed two of his books which were published posthumously based on material which had previously appeared in serial format: Dr.
- Dolittle and the Green Canary (1950) and Dr.
- Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures (1952).
- She also wrote the script for a play Doctor Dolittle based on Lofting's books.The Fricker/Darby Scholarship, which supports the development of teachers of the Cecchetti method, was established in the name of Fricker and Shiela Darby.
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