Ballerina Belinda Wright, 78
Posted: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 11:27 pmBelinda Wright, a British ballerina who toured the world and excelled in the 19th-century Romantic and classical repertory, died on Sunday in Zurich, Switzerland. She was 78.
The cause was a coronary ailment, said J. David Enright IV, a spokesman for her family.
Ms. Wright and her husband, the dancer and teacher Jelko Yuresha, lived in Zurich and also had a residence in Manhattan. …
In his 1960 autobiography, [Anton] Dolin called Ms. Wright “the perfect dancer.” He continued, “She has beautiful legs and feet and a body of wonderful proportion, is as light as Markova, with the same ethereal quality and the strange inner emotion of the real artist.”
Like Ms. Markova, Ms. Wright was acclaimed as Giselle, perhaps the greatest role in the Romantic repertory. … Read full obituary
