Irena Turska(1912-2012)
In 1943 in Warsaw, she graduated from the School of Rhythmics and Artistic Dance of J. Mieczynska, and from 1946 to 1948 she lectured on the history of dance at the State Higher School of Theater in Lódz. From 1947, she regularly published texts on contemporary ballet and dance. In the years 1951-1953 she was a member of the State Verification Commission at the Ministry of Culture and Art, which was established to regulate the principles of granting professional dancers' qualifications. From the mid-1950s, she cooperated with PWM Edition, publishing monographs and compendiums of knowledge about the history and theory of dance.
In the years 1964-1966, as a French government scholarship holder, she studied under Stanislaw Glowacki at the Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Chorégraphiques in Paris, where in 1964 she defended her doctoral thesis. From 1972 to 1989, she gave lectures on the history and aesthetics of dance at the Extramural College of Dance Teachers at the Faculty of Music Education of the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw - at that time she was also the author of dance history textbooks intended for this study. From 1996, she was an activist in the Polish section of the European Dance Research Information Directory.
In the years 1964-1966, as a French government scholarship holder, she studied under Stanislaw Glowacki at the Ecole Supérieure d'Etudes Chorégraphiques in Paris, where in 1964 she defended her doctoral thesis. From 1972 to 1989, she gave lectures on the history and aesthetics of dance at the Extramural College of Dance Teachers at the Faculty of Music Education of the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw - at that time she was also the author of dance history textbooks intended for this study. From 1996, she was an activist in the Polish section of the European Dance Research Information Directory.