Ruth A. Sobotka (September 4, 1925 - June 17, 1967) was an Austrian-born dancer, costume designer, art director, painter, and actress.
The daughter of prominent Austrian architect and interior designer, Walter Sobotka (1888-1972) and Viennese actress, Gisela Schönau, Ruth Sobotka immigrated to the United States from Vienna with her parents in 1938. She studied set design at The University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Carnegie Institute ...
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Ruth A. Sobotka (September 4, 1925 - June 17, 1967) was an Austrian-born dancer, costume designer, art director, painter, and actress.
The daughter of prominent Austrian architect and interior designer, Walter Sobotka (1888-1972) and Viennese actress, Gisela Schönau, Ruth Sobotka immigrated to the United States from Vienna with her parents in 1938. She studied set design at The University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. After studying at the School of American Ballet, Sobotka became a member of George Balanchine's Ballet Society (1946-1948) and its successor the New York City Ballet from 1949-1961. She also designed the costumes for and danced in the Jerome Robbins' controversial ballet The Cage (1951) and played Robbins' wife in Tyl Eulenspiegel (1951). Sobotka appeared in many successful Balanchine ballets including The Four Temperaments (1946); Serenade, Apollo, Symphony in C (1946); Swan Lake (pas de quatre) (1951); Concerto Barocco, The...
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