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Zena Rommett (born Angelina Buttignol; May 19, 1920<ref>{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Jack|title=Zena Rommett, ballet dancer who developed Floor-Barre, dies at 90|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/arts/dance/18rommett.html?_r=2&|accessdate=22 March 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 17, 2010}}</ref> – November 10, 2010) was an Italian-born American dancer, teacher, and originator of the world renowned Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® and Ballet Technique. Zena Rommett (born Angelina Buttignol; May 19, 1920<ref>{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Jack|title=Zena Rommett, ballet dancer who developed Floor-Barre, dies at 90|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/arts/dance/18rommett.html?_r=2&|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 17, 2010}}</ref> – November 10, 2010) was an Italian-born American dancer, teacher, and originator of the world renowned Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® and Ballet Technique.
Zena Rommett conceived and developed her technique by bringing dancers away from a traditional ballet barre and onto the floor to do their dance training exercises. By taking the effort of standing out of the equation, Ms. Rommett’s revolutionary technique took the weight-bearing pressure off the ankles, knees, and hips. Ms. Rommett’s innovative and creative application of ballet barre exercises performed using the floor as the source of support became known as the Floor-Barre®, the first approach of its kind.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Partridge|first=Jewel Elizabeth|title=Floored! Take to the floor to improve your technique|journal=Pointe|date=April/May 2002|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> Zena Rommett conceived and developed her technique by bringing dancers away from a traditional ballet barre and onto the floor to do their dance training exercises. By taking the effort of standing out of the equation, Ms. Rommett’s revolutionary technique took the weight-bearing pressure off the ankles, knees, and hips. Ms. Rommett’s innovative and creative application of ballet barre exercises performed using the floor as the source of support became known as the Floor-Barre®, the first approach of its kind.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Partridge|first=Jewel Elizabeth|title=Floored! Take to the floor to improve your technique|journal=Pointe|date=April/May 2002}}</ref>
Floor-Barre® enables the practitioner to efficiently and effectively strengthen joints and muscles, correct alignment, release tension, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries.<ref name="promotional brochure">{{cite book|title=Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Foundation|publisher=Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Foundation|location=New York City}}</ref> <ref>{{cite journal|last=Sagolia|first=Lisa Jo|title=Dancers reach higher levels by lowering the barre|journal=BackStage|date=April 27, 2006|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> Known for her “patient, persuasive, and quiet voice,”<ref>{{cite journal|last=Horosko|first=Marian|title=Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Technique|journal=Dance Magazine|date=November 1997|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> Zena Rommett’s quiet directed movements create a rhythmic flow which stills and focuses the mind and centers the body, so that beautiful lines, smooth transition and fluidity of movement can be developed. “What I do,” said Ms. Rommett, “is define, refine, and fine-tune movements so that they can be performed more correctly and easily. The muscles become lengthened and strengthened, and energy is not dissipated but directed. It all comes from the basics taught in a pure manner.”<ref>{{cite journal|last=Horosko|first=Marian|title=Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Technique|journal=Dance Magazine|date=November 1997|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> Floor-Barre® enables the practitioner to efficiently and effectively strengthen joints and muscles, correct alignment, release tension, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries.<ref name="promotional brochure">{{cite book|title=Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Foundation|publisher=Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Foundation|location=New York City}}</ref> <ref>{{cite journal|last=Sagolia|first=Lisa Jo|title=Dancers reach higher levels by lowering the barre|journal=BackStage|date=April 27, 2006|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> Known for her “patient, persuasive, and quiet voice,”<ref>{{cite journal|last=Horosko|first=Marian|title=Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Technique|journal=Dance Magazine|date=November 1997|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> Zena Rommett’s quiet directed movements create a rhythmic flow which stills and focuses the mind and centers the body, so that beautiful lines, smooth transition and fluidity of movement can be developed. “What I do,” said Ms. Rommett, “is define, refine, and fine-tune movements so that they can be performed more correctly and easily. The muscles become lengthened and strengthened, and energy is not dissipated but directed. It all comes from the basics taught in a pure manner.”<ref>{{cite journal|last=Horosko|first=Marian|title=Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Technique|journal=Dance Magazine|date=November 1997|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref>
Ms. Rommett’s teaching style, in addition to the genius of her technique, drew students from all over the world. Ms. Rommett’s students were dancers, musical theatre artists, athletes and non-dancers, including Melissa Hayden, Tommy Tune, Patrick Swayze, Judith Jamison, Lar Lubovitch, John Curry, and Ulysses Dove.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Partridge|first=Jewel Elizabeth|title=Floored! Take to the floor to improve your technique|journal=Pointe|date=April/May 2002|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Jack|title=Zena Rommett, ballet dancer who developed Floor-Barre, dies at 90|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/arts/dance/18rommett.html?_r=2&|accessdate=22 March 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 17, 2010}}</ref> <ref>{{cite journal|last=Sagolia|first=Lisa Jo|title=Dancers reach higher levels by lowering the barre|journal=BackStage|date=April 27, 2006|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> Ms. Hayden and Ms. Jamison have said that Zena Rommett’s Floor-Barre® was critical to their rehabilitation following severe injuries.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Transitions: Deaths: Zena Rommett (1920-2010)|journal=Dance Magazine|date=March 2011|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> Ms. Rommett’s teaching style, in addition to the genius of her technique, drew students from all over the world. Ms. Rommett’s students were dancers, musical theatre artists, athletes and non-dancers, including Melissa Hayden, Tommy Tune, Patrick Swayze, Judith Jamison, Lar Lubovitch, John Curry, and Ulysses Dove.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Partridge|first=Jewel Elizabeth|title=Floored! Take to the floor to improve your technique|journal=Pointe|date=April/May 2002|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Jack|title=Zena Rommett, ballet dancer who developed Floor-Barre, dies at 90|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/arts/dance/18rommett.html?_r=2&|accessdate=22 March 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 17, 2010}}</ref> <ref>{{cite journal|last=Sagolia|first=Lisa Jo|title=Dancers reach higher levels by lowering the barre|journal=BackStage|date=April 27, 2006|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref> Ms. Hayden and Ms. Jamison have said that Zena Rommett’s Floor-Barre® was critical to their rehabilitation following severe injuries.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Transitions: Deaths: Zena Rommett (1920-2010)|journal=Dance Magazine|date=March 2011|accessdate=22 March 2014}}</ref>

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Zena Rommett (born Angelina Buttignol; May 19, 1920 – November 10, 2010) was an Italian-born American dancer, teacher, and originator of the world renowned Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® and Ballet Technique. Zena Rommett conceived and developed her technique by bringing dancers away from a traditional ballet barre and onto the floor to do their dance training exercises. By taking the effort of standing out of the equation, Ms. Rommett’s revolutionary technique took the weight-bearing pressure off the ankles, knees, and hips. Ms. Rommett’s innovative and creative application of ballet barre exercises performed using the floor as the source of support became known as the Floor-Barre®, the first approach of its kind. Floor-Barre® enables the practitioner to efficiently and effectively strengthen joints and muscles, correct alignment, release tension, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries. Known for her “patient, persuasive, and quiet voice,” Zena Rommett’s quiet directed movements create a rhythmic flow which stills and focuses the mind and centers the body, so that beautiful lines, smooth transition and fluidity of movement can be developed. “What I do,” said Ms. Rommett, “is define, refine, and fine-tune movements so that they can be performed more correctly and easily. The muscles become lengthened and strengthened, and energy is not dissipated but directed. It all comes from the basics taught in a pure manner.” Ms. Rommett’s teaching style, in addition to the genius of her technique, drew students from all over the world. Ms. Rommett’s students were dancers, musical theatre artists, athletes and non-dancers, including Melissa Hayden, Tommy Tune, Patrick Swayze, Judith Jamison, Lar Lubovitch, John Curry, and Ulysses Dove. Ms. Hayden and Ms. Jamison have said that Zena Rommett’s Floor-Barre® was critical to their rehabilitation following severe injuries. Zena Rommett was born Angelina Buttignol on May 19, 1920 in the Venetro Region, Italy and immigrated to America with her mother in 1925. Zena’s father, Antonio, had immigrated to America two years earlier. The family settled together in Elmsford, New York. Zena dreamed of being a dancer. As her father took her by train twice a week into Manhattan to attend ballet classes, Zena’s dream of becoming a dancer started to become real. She studied ballet with leading ballet teachers in New York City, including Anatole Vilzak, Chester Hale, Ludmilla Schollar, and Elisabeth Anderson-Ivantzova. Zena Rommett began her professional career as a member of an adagio dance trio. She performed with the U.S.O. during World War II. She made her Broadway debut in December 1944 in the original cast of Billy Rose’s “Seven Lively Arts” with major ballet numbers choreographed by Anton Dolin. She danced in Broadway musicals “Song of Norway,” choreographed by George Balanchine, and “Paint Your Wagon,” choreographed by Agnes de Mille. Ms. Rommett’s aspirations soon turned to pedagogy and she was invited by Robert Joffrey to teach at his American Ballet Center in New York City in 1965. Her combined teaching experience and professional dance background inspired her to create her unique Floor-Barre® method for training and rehabilitating dancers. In 1968, Zena Rommett founded her own school which was located at 70 West Third Street, in New York City. Zena Rommett Dance Association, aka Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® Foundation, was founded that same year by Zena Rommett and founding board members Robert Joffrey and Howard Squadron. The school became Zena Rommett’s laboratory for developing the Floor-Barre®, as she helped ballet, modern, jazz and musical theatre performers to overcome injuries and develop and refine their technique. Ms. Rommett discovered that working with the legs in a parallel position was an effective way to train and correct a dancer’s placement. Ms. Rommett explained that “ne day to experiment I had the students bring their legs into parallel. Then and there I discovered the beautiful secret of my technique. By working in parallel, I could correct the body alignment for a perfect turnout.” Ms. Rommett later said that “hen you work in parallel on the floor, the connection of the ankle to knee to hip is so correct that when you turn out again” and cautioned that “it must be done meticulously to be effective.” Zena Rommett also offered Floor-Barre® classes around New York through her personally trained teachers. In 2006 Floor-Barre® was trademarked. Ms. Rommett taught Floor Barre® classes at Steps Studio in New York up until three months before her death. Zena Rommett was married to artist Alexis Nicoli Romanovich. They had two daughters, Melissa Romanovich and Camille Rommett Mouquinho. Zena’s husband died in 1968. Robert Joffrey gave Zena the surname Rommett in 1965. Some other family members also adopted the surname Rommett. On November 10, 2010, Zena Rommett died of cancer at the age of 90. Ms. Rommett and her daughter, Camille Rommett, began offering annual teacher certification courses in 1998 and today her Floor-Barre® Technique continues throughout the world by devoted teachers who have been certified to teach Ms. Rommett’s technique. Camille Rommett continues Ms. Rommett’s work as the Executive Director of the Zena Rommett Floor-Barre® Foundation and orchestrates two Floor-Barre® certification courses each summer in Europe and New York City.





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