Friends of the Carson-Brierly Dance Library

Abstract Rieke Love recounts her childhood training in Koblenz, Germany. She was accepted into the Stadt Theatre to study ballet at age seven and remained there until 1940. She talks about her formal, intellectual, education and how important literature, the arts and research were in her dance training. She compares dance training in America to Europe stating how ''poorly educated'' American dancers are. Love states that her education and her dance were ''a total environment of artistic saturation.''...

Abstract Vera Sears recounts her childhood growing up in Germany and attending the Berlin Opera School. She performed with a group of students in the summers, which gave her the background for her life in dance. Edwin Sieradz, Sears' future husband, was a musician in this group. He studied law in Berlin and also worked as a secretary for Albert Einstein. Sears talks about living in Germany in the 1930's when Hitler came to power, and about the fear you had of all people, even your friends and your...

Abstract Vera Sears recounts her childhood growing up in Germany and attending the Berlin Opera School. She performed with a group of students in the summers, which gave her the background for her life in dance. Edwin Sieradz, Sears' future husband, was a musician in this group. He studied law in Berlin and also worked as a secretary for Albert Einstein. Sears talks about living in Germany in the 1930's when Hitler came to power, and about the fear you had of all people, even your friends and your...