Nancy Elizabeth Oliphant (August 5, 1918 – July 12, 2004) was a co-founder of the National Ballet School of Canada.
Life
Oliphant was born in London in 1918. She studied with Tamara Karsavina, Laurent Novikoff and Marie Rambert. By the age of 17, she had opened her own school having decided that she was too tall to be top dancer herself. In 1988, the National Ballet School of Canada named its new performance space the Betty Oliphant Theatre. In 1996, she published an autobiography Miss O: My Life in Dance (). She was appointed a Member of the Order of Ontario (OOnt) in 2000.
She died in St. Catharines, Ontario at the age of 85.
References
External links
- Betty Oliphant at The Canadian Encyclopedia