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Eugenia Popescu-Județ was born in 1925 in Giurgiu, Romania. She is a choreographer and dancer who has been active in the Romanian dance scene since the 1950s. She is best known for her work with the National Ballet of Romania, where she served as artistic director from 1975 to 1985.
Popescu-Județ began her career as a dancer in the 1950s, performing with the National Ballet of Romania. She was appointed artistic director of the company in 1975, and held the position until 1985. During her tenure, she choreographed several ballets, including "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake". She also created works for the National Opera of Romania, and was a professor at the National University of Music in Bucharest.
Popescu-Județ has been honored with numerous awards, including the Order of Cultural Merit in Romania, the Order of the Star of Romania, and the Order of the Crown of Romania. She is also a recipient of the National Order of Merit in France.
As of 2021, Eugenia Popescu-Județ's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.
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Between 1990 and 1995, Eugenia donated Gheorghe's and her own collection to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Eugenia Popescu-Județ died on December 20, 2011 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Popescu-Județ, Gheorghe, Eugenia Popescu-Județ, and James Roncevic. 1979. Judetz folk dance notation. Pittsburgh, Pa. Duquesne University Tamburitzans.
After her husband died in 1972, Eugenia permanently moved to the United States in 1973. In the US she taught at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Subsequently, she became an adjunct professor at Duquesne and continued to teach and choreograph for their dance ensemble The Tamburitzans (collection guide). In the US, she received several advanced university degrees, including a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, and published several books and articles, some of which are concerned with Dimitrie Cantemir and Turkish music.
Eugenia also had a career as a researcher and scholar. From 1949-51, she worked as a researcher at the Folklore Institute in Bucharest (then Institut de Folclor, today Institut de Etnografie si Folclor 'Constantin Brăiloiu'). From 1949 into the 1960s, she frequently accompanied her husband on research trips in the field to study Romanian folk dance At a time when international travels were a rare privilege for Romanians, Eugenia Popescu-Județ frequently travelled as a guest lecturer and dance instructor: to India (1969), Yugoslavia (1969), Lebanon (1969), the United States (1970), Belgium (1970–71), and Finland (1971).
Eugenia Popescu-Județ (also spelled Popescu-Judetz; 1925–2011) was a Romanian dancer, dance teacher, choreographer and folklorist. Trained in ballet, she performed as a solo dancer for several professional theatres in Bucharest and became a famed choreographer of folk-inspired character dance working for film, TV, and several professional ensembles in Romania. She taught folk dance in Romania and internationally. Later she became an expert in manuscripts relating to the 17th century Romanian prince and composer Dimitrie Cantemir.
Eugenia Popescu-Județ, née Marisescu, was born in Giurgiu, Romania in 1925. Trained since childhood in classical ballet, she became a professional dancer and solo ballerina with the National Theatre Ballet of Bucharest (1945–50) and the National Opera, also in Bucharest (1950–54). After her marriage to the dancer Gheorghe Popescu-Județ her interest in Romanian folk dance increased. Together they performed folk dance-inspired choreographies and they won the first prize for character dance in the International Dance Competition at Prague. From 1954-70 she was ballet master and choreographer for the Perinița ensemble in Bucharest. In this time, she also worked as a guest choreographer for several other Romanian ensembles. From 1968 – 1970 she directed and choreographed folk dance-inspired dance films for Romanian TV. Eugenia Popescu-Județ taught dance in various capacities, for example from 1948-50 as a folk dance teacher and choreographer at the School and Ensemble of Pioneers in Bucharest, at the High School of the Arts in Bucharest, and later in the United States.
