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OTTAWA, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Celia Franca, the London-born dancer who emigrated to Toronto and founded the National Ballet of Canada, died in an Ottawa hospital at the age of 85.
Before moving to Canada, Franca choreographed for London's Metropolitan Ballet the first two ballets commissioned by the BBC, "Eve of St. Agnes" and "Dance of Salome," Playbill said.
She was recommended to a group of Canadians interested in forming a ballet company. After recruiting and training dancers, and preparing a debut program, Franca lead the first performance, Nov. 21, 1951, of what became the National Ballet of Canada.
Franca retired from dancing in 1959 but she served as the company's artistic director for 24 years.
The National Ballet dedicated this season, its first in the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto, to the memory of Celia Franca, who died Monday.
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