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Her visit coincided with the visit of the ballet . company's Concert Group, which performed i at the Universny of Waterloo Humanities Theatre last Saturday . Born in Bucharest. Romania, Pops was "one of those children who was always dancing to music" Her parents recognized their daughter's love of dance and, at the age of six. she began taking ballet lessons at a school supported by the Romanian government. When she was 16, visiting members of Russia‘s Bolshoi ballet noticed Popa's olmous talent and invited her to come and study ballet in Leningrad "My parents were afraid to tii me go," Pope recalled. 'They had to make a hard designer: to let me go for Cive years" Eventually they eoneeded mid their deughter headed to Lemngrad to a ballet Wendy Wide Chm Stait Every time Magdalena Pope sets to work moulding members of the National Ballet of Canada into artists, she brings to her pupils her knowledge as a dancer and uses the psychology of a teacher, Sltesaysitmrrubeeautrshefeelsdtutie tlimughherowttbodyssosltecanpasstm her experiences. And, as former world. renowned ballerina, and now as ballet mistrem for the Canadian company. she has a lot of experience to draw on. Popesaysthetricktohersuccessmth dancers is her ability to interpret each daneer's mood. to know them so well that she can convince them she believes in them. “Sometimes I see ballet teachers who don't know how to teach," she told a small group gathered to hear her speak at Waterloo City Centre. last Friday, "That is terribly reatiiietilteratMooPtrkhagthegmenlighttogtart orgartiringbrtltehmeU.25 msekend,._Wehaddinner uetaimintltettTrraetolrrro-tttreeetttiy artd-mmt'ur-d.iththeretsovati-miaai, Administrator Paul 00cm my: Henry Kn!) bu ,ierdttiayitr0rtorierreNiaeiiottomir, 1ifeh,utoirmtaurtuttsThiammiairsationli'tTe 1PteriootEt.aurtnrvtilleaiit1itheNiBat-iLiG managerlichnellollinonmlfyouthinkapnmnum txrmi'ivelt_eee,didrmieerrheee6wunitootstiaymik.trG, 'tmttenuhroreelrtagiorttnihueaehr..EiGiG baoitiiuoaikirtic-itt-ithvohmiiiiGTi, Ted Rooney Around Town school witha250yearhistoryofhaving seen the world's but performers - both Anna Pavlova and Nijinsky studied at the leningradschoollopaaaiditmathril] to imagine herself walking down the lame corridors as such noteworthy dancers. “The traditions were so strong everywhere you moved. The atmosphere was alive everywhere." Despite world.wi& sum as a principal ballerina, Popa appears modest about her atxnmplishrmmts Before Friday’s audience. she casually mention beaming one of very few young ballerinas to attain a position as a principal dancer with the Kirov ballet while still enrolled at the Bolshoi school. She also recounted stories about her guest performances with some of the world's best ballet companies. and mentioned being exhausted but challenged after quickly switching from classical to contemporary roles. Her countless trips to perform around the world were cut short in the early 19805 when the Romanian government arbitrarily decided to ban Pope from travelling. She said it had something to do with an uncle upsetting the government. In 1982, she, her ballet dancer husband and their six-yearolc daughter fled Romania and settled in North America. "l felt it was better to leave too early than too late" They first settled m Jackson, Mississippi. because Magdelena, who had been a dance Juror there before, was invited back as a juror again. Popa later decided to come to Canada to the National Ballet company. which resulted in her hanging up her professional career as a dancer to become a ballet mistress Today, teaching students who are nccustomed to different disciplines can be tough for Pope. 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