Nancy Greyeyes...
After
teaching pre-ballet for many years and the experience of raising her own daughters,
Nancy saw a need for a dance class that combined a young girl’s
love of ballet and the enchantment of the world of fairy-tales. Thus,
she designed this class specifically for young girls, informed by her love
of dance and now by her own knowledge as a mother. Once Upon a Princess has
really been twenty years in the making.
Nancy (née Latoszewski) began her dance training in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with Kim Parquette and Sharon Dante. She continued her training at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet with Marcia Dale Weary, with Francesca Corkle at the Joffrey Ballet and in New York City with Maggie Black, Simon Dow, and David Howard.
In 1987, Nancy was awarded Special Recognition for Artistic Achievement at the prestigious New York International Ballet Competition, the only North American dancer to win an award that year.
As a principal dancer with The Cleveland/ San Jose Ballet, Nancy performed leading roles in many ballets, including Maria (the young girl) and the Tsarina (Sugar Plum Fairy) in The Nutcracker, The Cowgirl in Rodeo, and Emilia in The Moor’s Pavane, Hermia in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Russian Girl in Serenade, Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, Le Chef Bandit in Roland Petit’s Carmen, the Peasant Pas de Deux in Giselle, The Four Temperments, Theme and Variations and Who Cares? by George Balanchine, Toreador and The Overcoat by Flemming Flindt, Three Virgins and a Devil, Romeo and Juliet, Stravinsky Piano Pieces, and Grand Pas de Dix, among many others.
As a soloist in the company of Eliot Feld, whose ballet A Footstep of Air was recently brought into the repertoire of the The National Ballet of Canada, Nancy performed in many of Eliot’s most well-known works. Featured roles include Sally in A Footstep of Air, Trio in The Jig is Up, Pierrot in Bloom’s Wake (since renamed ‘With Dew Upon Their Feet’). Nancy also performed or originated roles in Common Ground, Endsong, Contrapose, Skara Brae, At Midnight, Consort, Ah Scarlatti, Frets and Women, Fauna, Savage Glance, Evoe and Meadowlark.
As a principal dancer with the Alberta Ballet from 1988 to 1990,
Nancy appeared in the title role in Birgit Cullberg’s adaptation of Miss
Julie, Swanilda in Coppelia, the principal in George
Balanchine’s Donizetti Variations and the Sugar Plum
Fairy, the Dew Drop Fairy and the Snow Queen in Brydon Paige’s version
of The Nutcracker.
Nancy has performed at the ASSITEJ Festival in 1999 for Soundstreams Canada,
held that year in Tromsoe, Norway and the principal role in Night Traveller,
which premiered at the 1994 Canada Dance Festival in Hull, Quebec.
In addition to performing, Nancy has taught pre-ballet, introductory ballet, as well as intermediate to advanced and professional level ballet, since 1983 at the Wilkes-Barre Ballet Theatre School in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and at The Cleveland/ San Jose Ballet School, The Bay Village School of Dance, and Studio 82 in Cleveland, Ohio and most recently at the Quinte Ballet School in Belleville, Ontario.
She has also taught stretch and strength classes, based in Pilates mat work, at Studio 82, Baycrafters, and The Five Seasons health club in Cleveland, Ohio and the Quinte Ballet School in Belleville, Ontario.
Reviews
The Alberta Ballet dancers sunk their teeth into this dramatic ballet, revealing the emotion underscoring the ballet's moments of grinding realism and cruelty. American-born dancer Nancy Latoszewski was particularly impressive as Miss Julie, showing a clarity of attack and tremulous anxiety in dance that was polished and nuanced.
Deidre Kelly
Globe and Mail, March 12, 1990
The dancers are perfectly at home in this stylized manner, and newcomers like Miss Latoszewski have made themselves noticed for their polish during the season. Mr. Feld has trained a company that is a perfect instrument for his creativity.
Anna Kisselgoff
New York Times, Feb. 21, 1991
Nancy Latoszewski, in Agnes De Mille’s classic “Rodeo,” was darling as the adorable misfit who tries to be one of the guys until she falls in love and puts on a dress to get her man. Tiny and cute, she threw herself into the choice role with abandon, winning hearts as well as cheers.
Wilma Salisbury
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov. 1, 1996
Nancy M. Latoszewski, an American dancer who received an achievement award at the 1987 competition and is now a member of Feld Ballets/NY, was a guest artist in a sparkling variation from "Paquita.”
Jack Anderson
New York Times, June 30, 1993
At the final curtain, two other dancers were honored on their unheralded retirements: Nancy Latoszewski and Anne-Marie Savoie. Both tearfully received bouquets and solo bows as their fans cheered. Dedicated and hardworking, these talented dancers have made invaluable contributions to the company. Latoszewski, a Pennsylvania native who came to Cleveland in 1993 after dancing with Feld Ballets/ NY, brightened the stage with her radiant personality. This season, she dazzled as La Chef Bandit in Roland Petit's "Carmen," and she charmed as the Hungarian princess in "Swan Lake."
Their ballet slippers will be difficult to fill…
Wilma Salisbury
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mar. 11, 2000
