Iris Barbura (November 4, 1912, in Arad, Romania – June 13, 1969, in Ithaca, New York) was a Romanian-German-American dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher.
[1] Celebidache accompanied Barbura on the piano, and also composed music that she used in her performances.
From 1936 to 1938, Barbura spent summers studying dance in Vienna, Dresden, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Harald Kreutzberg, and in Berlin.
Between 1938 and 1942, Barbura worked in Bucharest as a choreographer and performed solo programs.
In 2016, her most famous student, Beth Soll, performed a solo work in her honor.