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Irine Fokine
September 20, 1922–December 5, 2010
Visitation: Tuesday, Dec. 7, 6–8 PM
Funeral service: Wednesday, Dec. 8, 11 AM
Both at: C. C. Van Emburgh Funeral Home
306 E. Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood
(corner of Maple Ave.)
https://vanemburgh.com/obituary_view/77345
Ridgewood dance icon Irine Fokine, ballet school founder and owner, ballet teacher, choreographer, great-grandmother, and Graydon fan, died on Sunday.
The Irine Fokine School of Ballet was a Chestnut Street fixture for 60 years.
Swimming at Graydon twice a day was a cherished part of Irine’s summer routine. Her Graydon friends will remember her favored wardrobe not as a leotard or tutu but as a bathing suit, white bathing cap or large sun hat, and sweeping white robe.
Irine fervently supported the Coalition’s fight to preserve Graydon. In the summer of 2009, at the height of the Graydon uproar, she took a moment while introducing her ballet troupe’s annual performance at the Kasschau Shell (its last, as it happened) to repudiate the very idea of replacing Graydon’s sand with concrete.
Marcia Ringel and Alan Seiden
Co-Chairs, The Preserve Graydon Coalition
info@preservegraydon.org
www.preservegraydon.org
It’s clear—we love Graydon
