Milica Hasalova Moravcik was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on April 12, 1933, and passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, in her home in Fairfax, Virginia. Milica was the daughter of Czechoslovak General of the Army, Antonin Hasal and Josefa Skorepova Hasalova. During the Second World War, General Hasal served as the military advisor to President Benes in the exiled government in London, England. At this time her mother, sister and brother were arrested by the Gestapo, the little Milica was left standing on the street, and was taken in by relatives who cared for her for the remainder of the war.
Following the communist occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1948, Milica at the age of 15, immigrated with her family to the United States. She made her home in Washington D.C. and the Maryland suburbs.
Milica went on to earn an Undergraduate degree in Dance and a Graduate degree in Education, both from The George Washington University, while also dancing with the Washington Ballet.
She married and raised her family in Silver Spring, Maryland. Milica founded and ran her successful ballet school, The Kemp Mill School of Ballet, for more than 20 years. She was a member of the Royal Academy of Dance (first president Margot Fonteyn) and later adopted the Vagonva method of teaching under the tutelage of Charles Dickson and Alan Woodard at the Metropolitan School of Ballet in Bethesda, Maryland. Milica and her best friend of 60 plus years, Phyllis Blake, (owner and Director of The Twinbrook School of Ballet, Rockville, Maryland) collaborated on innumerable ballet performances over the years. Milica was the choreographer for the Vienna Virginia Light Opera Company.
She was an active member of The Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) in Washington and in Edmonton.
Milica met and married Ivo Moravcik and moved to Edmonton Alberta, Canada. They enjoyed traveling and spending time in Prague and Maui.
Several years after Ivo’s death in 2009, Milica returned to Washington and celebrated the rest of her life in Fairfax, Virginia. She will be missed.
Milica is survived by her daughter, Jana Tilinger (Robert) of Fairfax, Virginia; her son, Major Peter Klavik, USAF (Ret.) (Lee) of Pittsboro, North Carolina; sister Dagmar White (Jack) of Vienna, Virginia; predeceased by her brother Milan Hasal; four grandchildren, Fletcher (Danielle), Allie (Chase), Dani (Zach), Kent “KC”, and four great grandchildren, Isla, Collins, Harper, Reagan.
A memorial service will be held at Joseph Gawler’s Sons Funeral Home, 5130 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Washington DC 20016 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 9th, 2022. A reception for friends and family will be held at Gawler’s reception rooms directly after the service, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m
Should you wish to send flowers, we suggest Suburban Florist, 7936 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda Md. 301-656-2288
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