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Article: Consummate artist founded national ballet
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- February 20, 2007
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By Victoria Ahearn
TORONTO -- Celia Franca, the legendary founder of the National Ballet of Canada, whose uncompromising standards and artistic vision inspired legions of dancers, died Monday at age 85.
The veteran performer and choreographer, who exuded elegance, was admitted to Ottawa Hospital last week and died there Monday morning, said a National Ballet spokeswoman. Coincidentally, Celia Franca: Tour de Force, created by retired prima ballerina Veronica Tennant, was scheduled to be rerun Monday evening on Bravo TV.
"It was a sad time," Tennant, who visited Franca in hospital over the weekend, said from her Toronto home.
"It's ...