Malinka, Bella

Educator, choreographer, and dancer Bella Malinka was born in the United States ca.1923. Little is known of her early life. She graduated from high school in 1940.

Malinka studied ballet with Anton Dolin, Leon Danelian, Bronislava Nijinska, and Edward Caton, among others. She also studied modern dance, theater dance, and ethnic dance with such dance notables as Hanya Holm, Agnes De Mille, Bhupesh Guha, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, and Frederico Rey.

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