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Hilary Cartwright
About Hilary
Following her career as a soloist with the Royal Ballet (England), Hilary became a teacher, a coach and a director of a number of ballet companies. She also staged ballets and is an Ashton Associate. In 2023, in recognition of her years as a teacher, coach and mentor to many young dancers, Hilary became one of seven honorees to receive the Dance Teacher Magazine award. In 2024 she is also featured in the book titled “Ageless Dancers” by Betti Francheschi.
She developed Yoga Narada®,which she had been teaching for the past 25 years as "Yoga for Dancers,” after co-founding White Cloud Studio in New York with Juliu Horvath. Her unique approach and presentation have taken her all over the world. Her work is acclaimed by dancers in internationally renowned ballet companies, schools for young students, and an expanding group of individuals who are non-dancers. She started Yoga Narada®retreats in Italy the summer of 2006 housed in a beautiful picturesque villa outside Florence.
This original endeavor expanded to include Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Morocco, Hawaii, London, Paris, Bern, Valencia, and major cities in the USA. Now based in Spain, Hilary is planning a series of future retreats beginning with Den Haag, Netherlands in 2025. These locations have become training centers for the team of new teachers she is assembling. Future locations are now in planning stages.
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Ageless Dancers
Betti Franceschi is a painter and sculptor with a decades-long interest in dancers. In 1983, she went to Paris to revel in her daughter Antonia dancing with New York City Ballet there. At the season gala, the audience was as thrilling as the performance on stage. However, the Parisian women in their couture paled in comparison to the retired ballet étoiles in attendance. Exactly thirty years later, at three in the morning Franceschi was jolted awake in her bed by the realization that she had to photograph those étoiles. It turned out that the project was realized with mostly American stars, and not in Paris but in Franceschi’s New York studio. The "Ageless Dancers" photographs are about great dancers’ expressive inner line and the technique that survives diminished athleticism—the artist’s joy triumphant over time.
'The black-on-black negates irrelevant mass and articulates the line of movement that is each dancer's signature. My fundamental motivation is to refute the youth-enthralled ageism of the American culture we live in. People are living longer and staying engaged and vibrant well into and past the old rocking-chair decades. These are icons for my generation. I am 87.'
