#alexandra danilova

[tikitania]

On exhibit at the NYPL Alexandra Danilova’a tutu. It it TINY. One of the many treasures shown from its vast collection.

#ballet #nypl #library #Alexandra Danilova #mariinsky ballet #prima ballerina #russian ballet #Ballet Russe

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Foto di Alexandra Danilova con dedica a Giannina Censi, Parigi 1930 di V. Dimitriew. Paris, 1930 | src Mart - Fondo Giannina Censi

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#v. dimitriew #v. dimitriev #alexandra danilova #portrait #role portrait #danseuse #tanzerin #russian dancer #1930s #1920s #danzatrice #dedicated photo #dance pose #tanzpose

[dance-world]

Gary Flannery - photo by Roy Blakey for After Dark magazine

Gary Flannery is a professional performer who toured the world as Shirley MacLaine’s partner; was a Principal Dancer on many TV Shows and Hollywood movies; and was a lead dancer on Broadway in Pippin and Dancin', and in the movie All That Jazz (Bob Fosse called Gary “The Bull” for the sheer non-stop energy). Gary has studied with teachers including Antony Tudor, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Stanley Williams, Alexandra Danilova, Anton Dolan, Lucas Hoving, Fred Benjamin, Chuck Davis, and Jaime Rogers. He received full scholarships to the School of American Ballet and Juilliard.  Gary continues to teach master classes, lectures, and seminars at universities, dance schools and colleges around the world.

#gary flannery #ballet #ballet history #dance #dancer #danseur #ballerino #bailarín #boys of ballet #ballet men #broadway dancer #musical theatre

[the1920sinpictures]

1928 Alexandra Danilova and Serge Lifar in “Appolon Musagete”. From The Forgotten Splendour, FB.

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

The Grandmother of Ballet: Alexandra Danilova  “Alexandra Danilova as the street dancer in Le beau Danube by Alexandre Lacovleff, 1937-1938, via the New York Public Library”

[adini-nikolaevna]

Hi! I was wondering if you know of any good sources to read about Alexandra Pavlovna and Maria Nikolaevna (daughter of Nicholas I)? Thank you so much for your time!

Hi! I received a very similar question a while back, so forgive me for copying and pasting my reply to that one, but here goes:

Alas, there are English-language books about Alexandra Pavlovna, but if you can read Russian, Пять принцесс. Дочери императора Павла I (Five Princesses. Daughters of Emperor Paul I) by Albina Danilova is available, as is Великая княгиня Александра Павловна. Жизнь. Семья. Судьба. Память (Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna: Life. Family. Fate. Memory.) by Oleg Volovik, I can give you the link to Father Andrei Samborsky’s recollections of Alexandra’s time in Vienna:

http://onkim.orthodoxy.ru/samborsky.htm

ONKIM.ORTHODOXY.RU

As for Maria Nikolaevna, there is “Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna and Her Palace in St. Petersburg” by Zoya Belyakova.

Hope this helps!

#answered

[balanchine-ballet-master]

Books on Balanchine

I’ve been meaning to list as many of the Balanchine- and NYCB-related books as I can. This post is limited to biographies of Balanchine, memoirs of Balanchine, and biographies of those closely associated with him. (A few are by or about people who didn’t work with him but who talk about dancing his ballets.)

Later posts will list books relating to his ballets, his teaching, criticism, NYCB history and general, School of American Ballet, fiction (yes, there is some!), and maybe the Ballets Russes (Balanchine-related).

Balanchine Biographies Bethany, Reine Duell        Balanchine—Russian-American Ballet Master Emeritus (author is the sister of Daniel and the late Joseph Duell)

Buckle, Richard     George Balanchine, Ballet Master (friend of Balanchine’s)

Charles River Editors       George Balanchine: The Life and Legacy of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Choreoraphers (80 pp.)

Costas     Balanchine: Celebrating a Life in Dance (photos)

Gottlieb, Robert        Balanchine: The Ballet Maker (concise)

Homans, Jennifer        Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century (Nov. 1, 2022)

Kendall, Elizabeth       Balanchine and the Lost Muse

Krista, David George     Balanchine: American Ballet Master (for children)

Portrait of Mr. B (photos, with introduction by Lincoln Kirstein)

Shearer, Moira      Balletmaster (Royal Ballet ballerina who worked with Balanchine)

Taper, Bernard      Balanchine: A Biography: With a New Epilogue

Teachout, Terry        All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine (concise)

Memoirs of Balanchine Ashley, Merrill     Dancing for Balanchine (ballerina, 1960s-1990s)

Bentley, Toni       Winter Season (journal of a corps member from the 1970s)

Boal, Peter        Illusions of Camelot (principal, 1980s-2000s) (Oct. 18, 2022)

Bocher, Barbara     The Cage: Dancing for Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine 1949-1954 (soloist)

Clifford, John      Balanchine’s Apprentice: From Hollywood to New York and Back (principal, 1970s)

Danilova, Alexandra        Choura (second wife)

Farrell, Suzanne        Holding on to the Air (ballerina, 1960s-1980s)

Fisher, Barbara Milberg     In Balanchine’s Company (soloist, 1950s)

Geva, Tamara       Split Seconds (first wife; wonderful book)

Hayden, Melissa     Melissa Hayden, Offstage and On (ballerina, 1950s-1970s)

Karz, Zippora       The Sugarless Plum (soloist, 1980s; title refers to her diabetes)

Kent, Allegra      Once a Dancer (ballerina, 1950s-1980s)

Kirstein, Lincoln     Mosaic

Kistler, Darci      Ballerina: My Story (for children) (ballerina, 1980s-2010s)

Martins, Peter      Far From Denmark (principal and NYCB director)

Martins, Peter and Steven Caras     Balanchine: Photo Album and Memoir (mostly photos; 62 pp.) (Caras was a corps member, 1960s-1980s)

Mason, Francis     I Remember Balanchine (hefty volume of reminiscences from all periods of Balanchine’s life)

Newman, Barbara      Striking a Balance (interviews with Doubrovska, Lifar, Christensen, Youskevitch, Shearer, Nerina, Le Clercq, Mason, Kelly, Bonnefous, Martins, Ashley, Ananiashvili)

Newman, Barbara      Grace Under Pressure (interviews with Schorer, Tomasson, Russell, Frohlich, Verdy, Denvers)

Ohman, Frank, and Emily Berkowitz        Balanchine’s Dancing Cowboy (soloist, 1960s-1970s)

Patelson, Alice     Portrait of a Dancer, Memories of Balanchine (corps, 1970s)

Soto, Jock      Every Step You Take: A Memoir (principal, 1980s-1990s)

Tallchief, Maria, and Larry Kaplan        Maria Tallchief, America’s Prima Ballerina (ballerina, 1950s-1960s)

Tracy, Robert       Balanchine’s Ballerinas: Conversations with the Muses (interviews with Danilova, Geva, Doubrovska, Toumanova, Boris, Reiman, Marie-Jeanne, Moylan, Tallchief, Hayden, Adams, Kent, Verdy, McBride, Farrell, Mazzo, von Aroldingen, Ashley, Kistler)

Villella, Edward        Prodigal Son (principal, 1950s-1980s)

Zorina, Vera       Zorina (wife #3)

Biographies of Balanchine-Related People Duberman, Martin     The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

Jowett, Deborah     Jerome Robbins, His Life, His Theater, His Dance

Kavanagh, Julie     Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton

Kavanagh, Julie     Nureyev

Lawrence, Greg     Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins

Leddick, David     Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle

Lesser, Wendy      Jerome Robbins, a Life in Dance

Lobenthal, Joel     Wilde Times: Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet (ballerina, 1950s-1960s)

Osato, Sono     Distance Dances (minor mentions)

Protopopescu, Orel        Dancing Past the Light: The Life of Tanaquil Le Clercq (fifth and final wife; principal, 1940s-1950s)

Robbins, Jerome     Jerome Robbins by Himself (letters, journals, drawings, etc.)

Sills, Bettijane        Broadway, Balanchine, and Beyond: A Memoir (soloist, 1960s-1970s)

Vaill, Amanda     Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins

West, Martha Ullman        Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet (principals, 1940s-1950s)

#Balanchine #George Balanchine #ballet #New York City Ballet #books #ballet books #dancers #choreographer #dance #dancing #biography #memoirs

[lovelyballetandmore]

Oleg Tupine | Alexandra Danilova

#oleg tupine #alexandra danilova #ballet slippers #ballerina #vintage ballet #ballet history

[didoofcarthage]

Photographs of the Ballets Russes production of Apollon Musagète

1928

photostatic gelatin silver print

New York Public Library, Jerome Robbins Dance Division x x x

#Ballets Russes #ballet #dance #Apollon Musagète #Apollo #muse #muses #mythology #unknown photographer #gelatin silver print #photostatic gelatin silver print #photograph #photo #historical photography #Serge Lifar #Alexandra Danilova #Felia Doubrovska #Alice Nikitina #Lubov Tchernicheva #NYPL #New York Public Library

[timetravelphotobooth]

Ballerina Alexandra Danilova with Leonid Massie (French)

#Alexandra Danilova #Leonid Massie #Photography #Dancing #Ballet #Ballerina #Ballerinas #Vintage #Black And White #French #France

[kitsunetsuki]

Cecil Beaton - Alexandra Danilova in Swan Lake (Vanity Fair 1935)

#cecil beaton #vanity fair #photography #b&w #b&w photography #vintage fashion #vintage style #vintage #retro #aesthetic #beauty #swan lake #alexandra danilova #ballerina #ballet #30s #30s fashion #thirties #dancer #1930s

[galina-ulanova]

Patricia McBride and Helgi Tomasson rehearsing Coppélia with Alexandra Danilova (NYCB, 1974)

#ballet #ballet history #patricia mcbride #helgi tomasson #alexandra danilova #nycb #coppélia

[ulrichgebert]

Beim Ballett ist doch nicht alles so schön. Neid, Mißgunst und finanzielle Kompromisse bestimmen das Tagesgeschäft, die Zeit ist so kurz, und die Leute kommen nicht wegen des Könnens der Tänzer, sondern nur, weil sie in engen Hosen und ohne Hemd gut aussehen. Besonders dieser russische Junge, der Tanz bei der männlichen amerikanischen Jugend wieder salonfähig machen wird. Im Gegensatz zu den gängigen Clichés sind alle Ballettänzer heteresexuell. Obwohl wir spontan gesagt hätten, Shirley MacLaine tanzt besser als Anne Bancroft, hat es letztere zur großen Primaballerina geschafft, während Shirl alles für eine Familie aufgab, und nie sicher sein konnte, ob sie es auch geschafft hätte. Nun steht Anne am Ende ihrer Karriere, und Shirls Töchterlein wird der neue große Star, und beide sind neidisch aufeinander, und wir versinken in einem Meer von Tränen. Marcia und Richard kommen kurz aus Stuttgart vorbei.

#The Turning Point #Leslie Browne #Mikhail Baryshnikov #Shirley MacLaine #Anne Bancroft #Tom Skerritt #Marcia Haydée #Richard Cragun #Antoinette Sibley #Alexandra Danilova #Film gesehen #Ballett #Herbert Ross

[adini-nikolaevna]

hello - if possible, do you know any good sources about Alexandra Pavlovna (b. 1783) and/or Maria Nikolaevna (b. 1819)? thank you for your time!

Hi! Alas, there are English-language books about Alexandra Pavlovna, but if you can read Russian, Пять принцесс. Дочери императора Павла I (Five Princesses. Daughters of Emperor Paul I) by Albina Danilova is available, as is Великая княгиня Александра Павловна. Жизнь. Семья. Судьба. Память (Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna: Life. Family. Fate. Memory.) by Oleg Volovik, I can give you the link to Father Andrei Samborsky’s recollections of Alexandra’s time in Vienna:

As for Maria Nikolaevna, there is “Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna and Her Palace in St. Petersburg” by Zoya Belyakova.

Hope this helps!

[balanchine-ballet-master]

Alexandra Danilova and Anton Dolin in Le Bal.

Music: Vittorio Rieti Choreographer: George Balanchine Producer: Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev Premiere: 7 May 1929, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, Monaco Costume design: Giorgio de Chirico Costumier: A. Youkine Scenery design: Giorgio de Chirico Libretto: Boris Kochno, after a novel by Count Vladimir Sollogub Main characters: The Lady, the Young Man, the Astrologer, the Sylphides, the Italian guests, the Spanish guests, the Statue

A young man, dressed as a military officer, attends a masked ball where he meets a beautiful masked lady accompanied by an old astrologer, and falls in love with her, even as she flirts with his rival, a young Italian man. While overseen by the ballroom’s giant classical statue, which is possessed of magical powers, the sylphides mischievously dress to imitate the couple in order to confuse their suitors. The young man finally persuades the lady to remove her mask and is dismayed to see her as an old woman. He tries to leave but she pursues him, and as the ball ends the old woman leaves on the arm of the astrologer. As she passes the young officer she and the astrologer both remove further masks, revealing them as a beautiful young couple. Attempting to follow them, the dazed young officer is held back by the statue to contemplate his behavior.

Text by the National Gallery of Australia

#Le Bal #Balanchine #ballet #Ballets Russes #Diaghilev #Giorgio de Chirico #Boris Kochno #Vittorio Rieti #Alexandra Danilova #Anton Dolin