Ballet scholars are chasing details about her identity, which remains shrouded in mystery. NPR has pointed out there is no such known company as “the New York Ballet,” and the New York City Ballet does not list González Saldaña among its alumni. “Now on the occasion of her death, the sharing of these images serve as a deserved recognition of her art and her passion. It’s been a year since all this,” Banderas said in his Facebook post. Tchaicovsky’s music managed to outwit her Alzheimer’s. Retrieved January 31, 2017.“Fifty-three years ago she was a dancer with the New York Ballet. "Marta Becket, who made Amargosa Opera House famous, dies at 92". "Soirée planned for Becket’s final stage performance" Archived at archive.today "Amargosa Opera House visionary Marta Becket prepares to bow out". ^ Peterson, Kristen (8 September 2010)."Lost Highway Hotel" Archived at the Wayback Machine Berkeley: University of California Press. Death Valley & the Amargosa: a land of illusion. "Marta Becket, Dancer in the Desert, Dies at 92". ^ Sandomir, Richard (3 February 2017).^ 24th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards Archived at the Wayback Machine, accessed January 31, 2017.^ "Documentary Chronicles Marta Becket's 40-Year Solo Career".^ a b c "Dancer, Artist Enlivens Death Valley Junction".^ Obituary of Marta Becket, New York Times, February 3, 2017,.
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īecket occupied the theater since 1968, and personally created the murals and sets. Becket ceased performing in her Amargosa Opera House at the end of the 2008-09 season but began performing again in 2010.
In later years, Becket dropped the dancing to perform weekly The Sitting Down Show. She began performing to visitors from around the world, including such notables as Ray Bradbury and Red Skelton. Their profile and another in Life led to an international interest in Becket and her theater. In 1970, journalists from National Geographic discovered Becket doing a performance at the Amargosa Opera House without an audience. īecket rented the recreation hall, then known as Corkhill Hall, began repairs and changed the name to the Amargosa Opera House. At the northeast end of the complex was a recreation hall used as a community center for dances, church services, movies, funerals and town meetings. The U-shaped complex of Mexican Colonial-style adobe buildings included company offices, a store, a dorm, a 23-room hotel, dining room, lobby and employees' headquarters. The theater was part of a company town designed by architect Alexander Hamilton McCulloch and constructed in 1923–24 by the Pacific Coast Borax Company. She married in 1962, and she was on her way with her husband to an engagement in 1967 when, due to a flat tire, she discovered a theater in Death Valley Junction and decided to stay. Later, she took her one-woman show across the country, performing in small theaters and school auditoriums. She was in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall and on Broadway she appeared in Show Boat, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Wonderful Town. Becket began ballet lessons at age 14, which eventually led to performances as a ballerina.
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