Celebrating Mia Slavenska – Croatian American Trailblazing Ballerina

Croatia, the War, and the Future

Mia Slavenska
A celebrated
Croatian American ballerina

California was quite abuzz last week with the premiere of an exciting new documentary film “Mia, a dancer’s journey” last week – featuring one of the most celebrated America’s ballerinas of the 20th Century and a pioneer of American ballet – Mia Slavenska; the Croatian born Mia Corak from the Eastern Croatia city of Slavonski Brod. This is the first time a film like this about a Croatian American has been distributed nationally on Public Television as it spreads from February 2015 through PBS channels across the nation (USA). For a list of channels visit http://www.pbssocal.org/tv/channels. The film is also to have a film festival premiere at the Lincoln Center in New York in January 2015.

One of the film’s producers is the Emmy® award winner Brenda Brkusic (also the Executive Producer of Program Development and National Productions for PBS…

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