Our 4th Annual Labor Day Antique Auction will contain the finest Antique Furniture, Art and smalls you will have the opportunity to purchase. Live bidding available online. This auction will include a fine and rare collection of New England Antiques from a local estate, most purchased in Pennsylvania. Includes items and fine art from the Estate of Thalia Mara. Thalia Mara Hall is named for her in Jackson. Art inlcudes rare art of ballerina's.
ABOUT Thalia Mara
Born in Chicago, Thalia Mara trained as a ballet dancer under the tutelage of the greatest Russian ballet stars of the Diaghilev era in the United States and in Paris France; specifically: Adoph Bolm , Olga Preobrajenska, Michel Fokine & Nicholas Legat.
She danced professionally, from a very young age, with various ballet companies on stages around the world. Along with her husband. Arthur Mahoney, toured their own concert program extensively across the United States and Canada.
Miss Mara also has an international reputation as a teacher and ballet educator. She served as a contributing editor to Dance Magazine, a critic and feature writer for The Christian Science Monitor and authored eleven published books, several of which are textbooks on ballet for students and teachers alike, and have been translated and published in Spain, Germany, France, Egypt, Japan and England; one art book,
To Dance to Live
Our 4th Annual Labor Day Antique Auction will contain the finest Antique Furniture, Art and smalls you will have the opportunity to purchase. Live bidding available online. This auction will include a fine and rare collection of New England Antiques from a local estate, most purchased in Pennsylvania. Includes items and fine art from the Estate of Thalia Mara. Thalia Mara Hall is named for her in Jackson. Art inlcudes rare art of ballerina's.
ABOUT Thalia Mara
Born in Chicago, Thalia Mara trained as a ballet dancer under the tutelage of the greatest Russian ballet stars of the Diaghilev era in the United States and in Paris France; specifically: Adoph Bolm , Olga Preobrajenska, Michel Fokine & Nicholas Legat.
She danced professionally, from a very young age, with various ballet companies on stages around the world. Along with her husband. Arthur Mahoney, toured their own concert program extensively across the United States and Canada.
Miss Mara also has an international reputation as a teacher and ballet educator. She served as a contributing editor to Dance Magazine, a critic and feature writer for The Christian Science Monitor and authored eleven published books, several of which are textbooks on ballet for students and teachers alike, and have been translated and published in Spain, Germany, France, Egypt, Japan and England; one art book,
To Dance to Live, in collaboration with artist Tina Mackler.
Three of her textbooks have never gone out of print since they were published in the 1950’s:
The language of Ballet
Steps in Ballet
On Pointe - * includes history of International Ballet Competition
In 1947, with interest towards raising standards of ballet teaching in the U.S., she founded the School of Ballet Repertory, a professional school of dance in New york City. In 1962, she closed the school to establish the National Academy of Ballet and Theatre Arts, an elementary and secondary school which combined academics and the performing arts.
Graduates of the Academy have been principal dancers in American Ballet Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany and many other Companies.
In 1975, the Jackson Ballet Guild invited Miss Mara to develop a professional ballet company and school for the state of Mississippi.
By 1982, she had developed an acclaimed company of twenty-two dancers. The Jackson Ballet performed around the state of Mississippi, also in Charlotte, North Carolina and Miami, Florida.
In 1979, as part of her development plan (building an audience for the performing arts), she secured the International Ballet Competition for the City of Jackson. This prestigious world –class event operates under the aegis of the International Theatre Institute, a branch of UNESCO, and has alternated among the international cities of Varna, Bulgaria; Moscow, Russia; Helsinki, Finland; Paris, France; Jackson, Mississippi. By an Act of the United States Congress, Jackson is the official USA home for the IBC.
By Resolution of the City Council of Jackson, Mississippi,
the MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM was named THALIA MARA HALL.
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