tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340176332024-03-06T02:57:06.302+11:00Dance in Performance and RehearsalAlex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-9342455391370151422015-03-06T02:02:00.000+11:002015-03-06T02:02:38.342+11:00George Kirsta and 'Ballet Kirsta'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-48663120950057304912010-08-11T12:03:00.002+10:002010-08-11T12:10:01.817+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:130%;" >Tamara Karsavina Rehearsing Margot Fonteyn</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxYFpKRBp-4WC6GC6_rw2A4anola8HGQ4NG_-0ya3sZ-tJxpMGMBPjwzhOYWtZhVD1O4ckXDf-F0Lh0rhZc8xTd0zhbOy2DKoSOIB2zx-vX3yUfwkIr5QD5ITxIffWX-y8pFs/s1600/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn+%27Spectre%27+1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxYFpKRBp-4WC6GC6_rw2A4anola8HGQ4NG_-0ya3sZ-tJxpMGMBPjwzhOYWtZhVD1O4ckXDf-F0Lh0rhZc8xTd0zhbOy2DKoSOIB2zx-vX3yUfwkIr5QD5ITxIffWX-y8pFs/s400/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn+%27Spectre%27+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503967521740934482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Rehearsing 'Le Spectre de la Rose'</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6OnKJtAspgZvcaeZcE_aF7jXyQC6zou-rI1vkcuHTJO49ZelnjkAkoLN1gByvV8a75ijDdYTTmvELs1saz-5ktpMKH4RuXEziVFbqpZ4v5bnmmgWwkIBTlAPH4X5BrqcqO7Z/s1600/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn+%27Spectre%27+2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6OnKJtAspgZvcaeZcE_aF7jXyQC6zou-rI1vkcuHTJO49ZelnjkAkoLN1gByvV8a75ijDdYTTmvELs1saz-5ktpMKH4RuXEziVFbqpZ4v5bnmmgWwkIBTlAPH4X5BrqcqO7Z/s400/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn+%27Spectre%27+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503967517891122434" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Rehearsing 'Le Spectre de la Rose'</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdJuYgI8JsBf961dGE1bwbxtz1zlJSOFQRlQzZjTGj3IvZ38ZBJuZ2J1Y8GMhAGYjHULTKXOcdVEg_TPYMj_i2Ubixo8HHFqPddgnsb2FEB7bD-GJdwOxFGnggKCmsFn7RmrTH/s1600/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn+%27Firebird%27+Edinburgh+1954+1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdJuYgI8JsBf961dGE1bwbxtz1zlJSOFQRlQzZjTGj3IvZ38ZBJuZ2J1Y8GMhAGYjHULTKXOcdVEg_TPYMj_i2Ubixo8HHFqPddgnsb2FEB7bD-GJdwOxFGnggKCmsFn7RmrTH/s400/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn+%27Firebird%27+Edinburgh+1954+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503967527306263330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Rehearsing 'The Firebird'</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh1w9jmqONZpDE9nYDBJVD0eKdVobKuAyxDjN0-e_dI9GzVKI7F2ThB2FAlMQf3Km5tBzT2fjO1KTzyxEe3DxG60hJ0JqWfGvqv5Cj2KxaNLZ456rPqMo7LTjZB8-hJb9frf6D/s1600/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn+%27Firebird%27+Edinburgh+1954+2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh1w9jmqONZpDE9nYDBJVD0eKdVobKuAyxDjN0-e_dI9GzVKI7F2ThB2FAlMQf3Km5tBzT2fjO1KTzyxEe3DxG60hJ0JqWfGvqv5Cj2KxaNLZ456rPqMo7LTjZB8-hJb9frf6D/s400/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn+%27Firebird%27+Edinburgh+1954+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503967530933073634" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Rehearsing 'The Firebird'</span></div><br />I particularly love the first image - which gives the tiniest sense of Karsavina's performance in the role.Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-74372278532281087312009-11-20T22:04:00.002+11:002009-11-20T22:05:13.678+11:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Film of Diaghilev Ballet Russe Ballerina Absoluta At Home</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDKAO0qcI/AAAAAAAAUM4/e98VQReW59w/s1600/Snag+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDKAO0qcI/AAAAAAAAUM4/e98VQReW59w/s400/Snag+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405800766868072898" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Tamara Karsavina arranging things in a doll's house in the garden at home in England (1920s)</span><br /></div><br />A couple of days ago I came across some footage of the great Mariinsky (now Kirov) Theatre and Serge de Diaghilev Ballet Russe prima ballerina, Tamara Karsavina ...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCcBtBeKI/AAAAAAAAUMI/M8gUxwLaISw/s1600/Karsavina.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCcBtBeKI/AAAAAAAAUMI/M8gUxwLaISw/s400/Karsavina.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405799976989194402" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">In '</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span lang="fr">L'Oiseau de feu' / </span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"> 'Firebird' (</span><span style="font-size:78%;">1910)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCb7yNjRI/AAAAAAAAUMA/fVG8uvHa--Y/s1600/Giselle+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCb7yNjRI/AAAAAAAAUMA/fVG8uvHa--Y/s400/Giselle+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405799975400344850" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">In 'Giselle' with Vaslav Nijinsky (1910)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwZywMWiHyI/AAAAAAAAUPY/FJfTPIv7czE/s1600/0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwZywMWiHyI/AAAAAAAAUPY/FJfTPIv7czE/s400/0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406134574979882786" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">With Vaslav Nijinsky in 'Le Spectre de la Rose' (1911)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwZyvseeb5I/AAAAAAAAUPQ/wLNvaCdHyno/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwZyvseeb5I/AAAAAAAAUPQ/wLNvaCdHyno/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406134566423261074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">With Vaslav Nijinsky in 'Le Spectre de la Rose' (1911)<br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwZyvPI1xbI/AAAAAAAAUPI/QpLdZ__HtwI/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwZyvPI1xbI/AAAAAAAAUPI/QpLdZ__HtwI/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406134558547887538" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">With Vaslav Nijnsky in 'Le Spectre de la Rose' (1911)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCcZnlBxI/AAAAAAAAUMQ/sqKqc_yHLR4/s1600/Karsavina_005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCcZnlBxI/AAAAAAAAUMQ/sqKqc_yHLR4/s400/Karsavina_005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405799983408809746" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">In 'Les Papillons' (1912)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVISkVSoDI/AAAAAAAAUNo/WmkZGzSn__0/s1600/%27Les+Papillons%27+1912.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVISkVSoDI/AAAAAAAAUNo/WmkZGzSn__0/s400/%27Les+Papillons%27+1912.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405806411555971122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">In 'Les Papillons' (1912)</span></div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVN3fIDadI/AAAAAAAAUNw/po16yRgFmI8/s1600/Serge+Lifar+and+Tamara+Karsavina+in+%27Romeo+et+Juilette%27+1926.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 297px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVN3fIDadI/AAAAAAAAUNw/po16yRgFmI8/s400/Serge+Lifar+and+Tamara+Karsavina+in+%27Romeo+et+Juilette%27+1926.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405812543371569618" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">With Serge Lifar in 'Romeo et Juilette' (1926)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCbcVGIkI/AAAAAAAAUL4/u-VIAqLMbw0/s1600/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCbcVGIkI/AAAAAAAAUL4/u-VIAqLMbw0/s400/Tamara+Karsavina+n+Fonteyn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405799966956724802" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> Tamara Karsavina</span><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span><span style="font-size:78%;">c1960 </span><span style="font-size:78%;"> teaching the ballerina role </span><span style="font-size:78%;">in 'Le Spectre de la Rose' (1911) </span><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span><span style="font-size:78%;">to Margot Fonteyn </span><br /></div><br />... doing a variety of ordinary and less ordinary things at home in England in the 1920s, such as arranging things in a doll's house ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCa65-WqI/AAAAAAAAULw/TsVu8TJNPvY/s1600/Snag+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVCa65-WqI/AAAAAAAAULw/TsVu8TJNPvY/s400/Snag+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405799957984598690" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDJ3-gWGI/AAAAAAAAUMw/i23q6TB9w8U/s1600/Snag+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDJ3-gWGI/AAAAAAAAUMw/i23q6TB9w8U/s400/Snag+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405800764652148834" border="0" /></a><br />... choosing some material to be made into a dress ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwZ04OmX14I/AAAAAAAAUPg/D5kNzf-T6D4/s1600/Snag+4+-+Copy+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwZ04OmX14I/AAAAAAAAUPg/D5kNzf-T6D4/s400/Snag+4+-+Copy+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406136912045397890" border="0" /></a><br />... reading a letter in her study ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDJZj71AI/AAAAAAAAUMg/niEPZLIeeL8/s1600/Snag+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDJZj71AI/AAAAAAAAUMg/niEPZLIeeL8/s400/Snag+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405800756487640066" border="0" /></a><br />... exercising and dancing in the garden ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDJENvcrI/AAAAAAAAUMY/hSApWlVyoY8/s1600/Snag+6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDJENvcrI/AAAAAAAAUMY/hSApWlVyoY8/s400/Snag+6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405800750757409458" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDfRAptRI/AAAAAAAAUNY/vRpx-n31dc4/s1600/Snag+7a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDfRAptRI/AAAAAAAAUNY/vRpx-n31dc4/s400/Snag+7a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405801132149290258" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDfKcahwI/AAAAAAAAUNQ/DDcCCoVldDs/s1600/Snag+8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDfKcahwI/AAAAAAAAUNQ/DDcCCoVldDs/s400/Snag+8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405801130386687746" border="0" /></a><br />... and leaving the house for a performance at the Coliseum Theatre in London ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDew66WnI/AAAAAAAAUNI/vroeKaZ5JPM/s1600/Snag+11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDew66WnI/AAAAAAAAUNI/vroeKaZ5JPM/s400/Snag+11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405801123535280754" border="0" /></a><br />... turning to take a coat from a maid ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDeo0h4vI/AAAAAAAAUNA/7deCtZEoGXo/s1600/Snag+14.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SwVDeo0h4vI/AAAAAAAAUNA/7deCtZEoGXo/s400/Snag+14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405801121361027826" border="0" /></a><br />... as a cat scurries past!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxt5Cf8iVcfIiWOJYx3Y5G2hh7EaWq4c0LXyaqQzpdZNxfVVRQuAzkwt5IdL_Y1bj925pklA3kXciU' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /></div><br /><br />The footage of Tamara Karsavina in these mostly every day activities seems to make her more real and less like simply the great and remote legend of the photographs, memoirs, histories and biographies of the Ballet Russe era.Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-24156236715451850902009-10-02T20:46:00.002+10:002009-10-02T20:47:15.506+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" >One of those What-Might-Have-Been Situations</span></span></span><br /></div><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ9yrovhI/AAAAAAAAStc/TL76DLXIaY8/s1600-h/0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ9yrovhI/AAAAAAAAStc/TL76DLXIaY8/s400/0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387670709842001426" border="0" /></a><br />I came across some very grainy footage recently of a most extraordinary ballet dancer - someone who obviously had the greatest future. Around 16, she'd been taking leading roles in the Mariinsky (Kirov) Theatre while still a student at the school.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ-KkDbhI/AAAAAAAAStk/6Mv3tQ_5CD8/s1600-h/0a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ-KkDbhI/AAAAAAAAStk/6Mv3tQ_5CD8/s400/0a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387670716252646930" border="0" /></a><br />The film shows <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">Valentina Semyukova in a </span></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">pas de deux from</span></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;"> 'The Nutcracker'.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ-kk-wbI/AAAAAAAASts/yFHHrvZpj20/s1600-h/0b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 357px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ-kk-wbI/AAAAAAAASts/yFHHrvZpj20/s400/0b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387670723235856818" border="0" /></a><br /><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">She already seems </span></span>perfectly formed as a dancer, about to enlarge on her technique.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ_Octv8I/AAAAAAAASt0/-ZXvRb1PvoE/s1600-h/0f.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ_Octv8I/AAAAAAAASt0/-ZXvRb1PvoE/s400/0f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387670734475476930" border="0" /></a><br />Through the movement, there is a perfect disposition of the forms of her body - creating an continuously exquisite line.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ_R4ISMI/AAAAAAAASt8/G9vxHaT2nA0/s1600-h/0f0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SsTZ_R4ISMI/AAAAAAAASt8/G9vxHaT2nA0/s400/0f0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387670735395768514" border="0" /></a><br />The phrasing with respect to the music is always intelligently considered and placed in an unmannered fashion. Not just following the music but leading purposefully away and then returning to catch the beat.<br /><br />She is still technically tentative, which is particularly evident in the section involving '<a href="http://www.abt.org/education/dictionary/index.html">fish dives</a>' - the choreography has been simplified somewhat for the still developing dancer.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx3Qx2-GdESsCedMKlQfZZZZOVjip_1-W0kZHKqyltb5z8X-0EVDUVgaHDlFfLG8_UnvZ-yAAx-gwM' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /></div><br />Very sadly, <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">Valentina Semyukova</span></span> died of an unspecified illness at just 17 years of age.Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-7142137995821033212008-10-12T05:37:00.004+11:002008-10-12T06:34:26.458+11:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Serge Lifar (1905-1986) - Last Great Male Dancer of the Ballet Russe de Serge Diaghilev </span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpaC-pXf1-qBbisa9RvylTaK_gWrPIW_toOU0FPIww1kr68vN1R7Pq78IU6pMYTo7REgkBzVl-53UTqKEMJI16U21yY-qKYxRvAHJNNKsYffebfBlQt1K2pzwOs77a9C8fKMkS/s1600-h/339A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpaC-pXf1-qBbisa9RvylTaK_gWrPIW_toOU0FPIww1kr68vN1R7Pq78IU6pMYTo7REgkBzVl-53UTqKEMJI16U21yY-qKYxRvAHJNNKsYffebfBlQt1K2pzwOs77a9C8fKMkS/s400/339A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255977579145634594" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdBq2ELfuFyubtEyNlksXvG7ToivBDi0zrI002z9bbENk-KzuFpbMzuqdF48HXj57QR_QMcG3FVyTlhZx-HDNB0iZyX5T2Rva8dXyyfCUmzAMEYXCpbDUSyydTooTAwTWrACn/s1600-h/Lifar+1925+Zephir+et+Flore.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdBq2ELfuFyubtEyNlksXvG7ToivBDi0zrI002z9bbENk-KzuFpbMzuqdF48HXj57QR_QMcG3FVyTlhZx-HDNB0iZyX5T2Rva8dXyyfCUmzAMEYXCpbDUSyydTooTAwTWrACn/s400/Lifar+1925+Zephir+et+Flore.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255977577623850546" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Lifar in 'Zephir et Flore' (1925)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlVdUlvimZDfCoooCk0PGoIxVPhJjr6vEoiaIfP9wVi9onmNVbm1P7JVlzWeHJuaH5NtTnfP8HEPAnd-DwTvK6Y6-fUE99DU6Hi6onIBxbnfKHWWiv-s9ZUI-vAB9D1hUaN-V/s1600-h/Kasarvina+and+Lifar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlVdUlvimZDfCoooCk0PGoIxVPhJjr6vEoiaIfP9wVi9onmNVbm1P7JVlzWeHJuaH5NtTnfP8HEPAnd-DwTvK6Y6-fUE99DU6Hi6onIBxbnfKHWWiv-s9ZUI-vAB9D1hUaN-V/s400/Kasarvina+and+Lifar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255977576699827666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Lifar and Tamara Karsavina in 'Romeo et Juilette' ?</span><br /></div><br />I've just come across these two clips of Serge Lifar - in the first, he conducts a class at the Paris Opera, and in the second he is performing the last part of 'L'Apres Midi d'un Faune' (choreography after Vaslav Nijinsky, music by ?)<br /><br /><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="FLVPlayer" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" height="472" width="590"><param name="movie" value="http://www.commeaucinema.com/flvplayerprx.php"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="flashvars" value="id=49604&vid=0"><embed src="http://www.commeaucinema.com/flvplayerprx.php" name="FLVPlayer" wmode="transparent" play="true" loop="false" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="id=49604&vid=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="472" width="590"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.commeaucinema.com/film=serge-lifar-musagete,49604.html" style="font-size: 9px; font-family: Arial;">Serge Lifar Musagete</a> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9;" >sur<span> <a href="http://www.commeaucinema.com/" title="Toute l'actu Cinema est sur Commeaucinema.com" style="font-size: 9px; font-family: Arial;">Comme Au Cinema</a></span></span></div>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-51358371229361276462008-10-03T19:15:00.001+10:002008-10-03T19:16:47.632+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Anna Pavlova - Solo to Rubenstein's 9th Symphony (1916)</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvoYI7ylvdexpZ_d6AI4FJZe3lUnaWNjc6y1wLQ2mg0QEQcdSclmBflWUpyZmhUSe0H5HAuSVHQ1RlnpaBExqq9Q8DcCAB-O57cCnkLI_9WH6hClOgUGsWhuiCckv27BWxR1I2/s1600-h/annapavlova192024pl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvoYI7ylvdexpZ_d6AI4FJZe3lUnaWNjc6y1wLQ2mg0QEQcdSclmBflWUpyZmhUSe0H5HAuSVHQ1RlnpaBExqq9Q8DcCAB-O57cCnkLI_9WH6hClOgUGsWhuiCckv27BWxR1I2/s400/annapavlova192024pl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252853031686300418" border="0" /></a><br />Again, I have no knowledge about this footage.<br /><br />It was taken in California in 1916 at the studio of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.<br /><br />It is extraordinary for the highly emotive second half.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M6mW90uhuro&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M6mW90uhuro&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-72036141311996422852008-10-03T18:59:00.003+10:002008-10-03T19:07:17.420+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Anna Pavlova</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfxOT905P5qSR3Jox2QZdewtOblQ6subho-F14_FqOhhMxbH_15nlAuK_C0KnXi4V9TUwzPcP4Z0lgET9ZVSUzJ2k5DGz825tIT4tFQ4ljPh-fJJeIfATZ2MzGbxR_hKxB01CU/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfxOT905P5qSR3Jox2QZdewtOblQ6subho-F14_FqOhhMxbH_15nlAuK_C0KnXi4V9TUwzPcP4Z0lgET9ZVSUzJ2k5DGz825tIT4tFQ4ljPh-fJJeIfATZ2MzGbxR_hKxB01CU/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252850453596493266" border="0" /></a><br />This film show Anna Pavlova in Grecian costume doing I know not what.<br /><br />She seems strangely and surreptitiously supported in arabesque at the beginning. And then does a series of traveling bourrees round the stage and off to the wings. Accompanied by a beautiful fluid porte de bras.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BcHtEjL__gI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BcHtEjL__gI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-41151606090006114872008-10-03T18:48:00.003+10:002008-10-03T18:58:57.533+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anna Pavlova - At Home and Traveling</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkSj4_Rk4YASEU7KyCqEZ63tX_n_eQKue8S2mtLo-9xoULQ63Tnadfh1MT2u_HTZrNAd7wAoFksbXLmSeGisj97W2tw6znKk9SKq5aPrcDNvQTZg0WYn7bzyPu6n23rJBEtaI/s1600-h/pavlovaeocisnePB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkSj4_Rk4YASEU7KyCqEZ63tX_n_eQKue8S2mtLo-9xoULQ63Tnadfh1MT2u_HTZrNAd7wAoFksbXLmSeGisj97W2tw6znKk9SKq5aPrcDNvQTZg0WYn7bzyPu6n23rJBEtaI/s400/pavlovaeocisnePB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252848040747247794" border="0" /></a><br />This footage shows Anna Pavlova at home, and on some of her extraordinary travels to take ballet to people all round the globe. I love seeing her going off somewhere by camel!<br /><br />It comes from a documentary about dance in general. And has Mikhail Baryshnikov as the talking head.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0nWjSv-tNiw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0nWjSv-tNiw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-46982243256931076122008-09-14T21:52:00.000+10:002008-09-14T21:54:28.232+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:130%;" >Frederick Ashton (1904-1988)</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzv9bRNmaI/AAAAAAAAJAA/JgeS_aCZRtg/s1600-h/Frederick+Ashton+a.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzv9bRNmaI/AAAAAAAAJAA/JgeS_aCZRtg/s400/Frederick+Ashton+a.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245831504550795682" border="0" /></a><br />When I was a kid living in London, I remember seeing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Ashton">Frederick Ashton</a> as one of the Ugly Sisters in the Royal Ballet's 'Cinderella'.<br /><br />I recall two things vividly.<br /><br />The first was the psychologically complex characterization: the warm, teasing, self-centred, loving, vain, vulnerable, shy, sly, nervous ... monster! In comparison with Robert Helpmann's much more broad-brush-stroke panto creation - as the other sibling. Some of all this is captured in the following photos:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyHesnuOI/AAAAAAAAJAY/3NAGG0WvJUg/s1600-h/1a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyHesnuOI/AAAAAAAAJAY/3NAGG0WvJUg/s400/1a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245833876293007586" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyHjCwSqI/AAAAAAAAJAg/qoX4tCHdJVQ/s1600-h/2a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyHjCwSqI/AAAAAAAAJAg/qoX4tCHdJVQ/s400/2a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245833877459585698" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyHvz2lwI/AAAAAAAAJAo/-tJptFcbBzs/s1600-h/3a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyHvz2lwI/AAAAAAAAJAo/-tJptFcbBzs/s400/3a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245833880886744834" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyH99fh7I/AAAAAAAAJAw/qBpUQxJHNQg/s1600-h/3a+Ashton+Helpmann+Cinderella+a.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyH99fh7I/AAAAAAAAJAw/qBpUQxJHNQg/s400/3a+Ashton+Helpmann+Cinderella+a.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245833884685273010" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyHw6yK6I/AAAAAAAAJA4/A0MCIFmWLd8/s1600-h/4a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyHw6yK6I/AAAAAAAAJA4/A0MCIFmWLd8/s400/4a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245833881184250786" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyNl9582I/AAAAAAAAJBA/Zj745fJGQI8/s1600-h/5a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzyNl9582I/AAAAAAAAJBA/Zj745fJGQI8/s400/5a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245833981323768674" border="0" /></a><br />The second occurred at the Ball. Each sister was vie-ing for the tall handsome prince as partner, as opposed to the other short ordinary-looking one. Of course Helpmann's tough and go-getting sister wins out. But then cunningly and placatingly whispers something in her gentler sister's ear - drawing a surreptitious but long glance at the diminutive prince's crotch. With a slow lascivious smile spreading over her face!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMz42b-tvsI/AAAAAAAAJBI/5zPIhBoacoA/s1600-h/Ballroom+Scene.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMz42b-tvsI/AAAAAAAAJBI/5zPIhBoacoA/s400/Ballroom+Scene.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245841280087211714" border="0" /></a><br />After the performance, I was introduced to Ashton and asked him to sign a book I'd just been given about his choreography.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzwhLBzbpI/AAAAAAAAJAQ/2j6gNY5lueM/s1600-h/Autograph+a.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zPRPilcOBxY/SMzwhLBzbpI/AAAAAAAAJAQ/2j6gNY5lueM/s400/Autograph+a.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245832118666489490" border="0" /></a><br />Without being able to think just what to say to such a young person, Ashton gently declared that it was raining outside and my book would need a mackintosh (raincoat) to get it home safely.Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-19435236674061060462008-09-14T02:35:00.003+10:002008-09-14T02:47:16.379+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Royal Danish Ballet - Ellen Price (1878-1968) in the Opening Solo of 'La Sylphide' (1903)</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4GM1M_I1tX8DKDyebk0s8lMtKxDVEZLCO75LDr8yZlwOiuvMmBnmFmMjHI455qXMS4udpm83w6sclySmqG9ozXJyGDXQTXX9WNtxSgZJlSKw0KyEi3lUp8b0HJEnpX2LA5ZCk/s1600-h/Ellen+Price+RDB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4GM1M_I1tX8DKDyebk0s8lMtKxDVEZLCO75LDr8yZlwOiuvMmBnmFmMjHI455qXMS4udpm83w6sclySmqG9ozXJyGDXQTXX9WNtxSgZJlSKw0KyEi3lUp8b0HJEnpX2LA5ZCk/s400/Ellen+Price+RDB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245547526714906162" border="0" /></a><br />Elle Price despite what her name suggests was a Danish ballerina. More information about her life and dancing can be found at:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.ballerinagallery.com/price.htm<br /></span></div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0b86BOYez8A&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0b86BOYez8A&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-57242498175707265132008-09-14T02:28:00.004+10:002008-09-14T03:07:45.644+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Royal Danish Ballet (1906) - Valborg Borchsenius (1872-1949) in 'Zigeunerdansen fra Troubadouren'</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIF2qhBoN_t01atweB9wdmPGkwnr7_yezFVtXQ7sxCcWUKgYCR9I0YnUtyFkKysrO_DaqPlWDEs6C7WdW3uI_h9LoxRKJHUYnaq55bUyy_a5z-v-9U0qV_mcmpu8uTaWuH_k0Y/s1600-h/Valborg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIF2qhBoN_t01atweB9wdmPGkwnr7_yezFVtXQ7sxCcWUKgYCR9I0YnUtyFkKysrO_DaqPlWDEs6C7WdW3uI_h9LoxRKJHUYnaq55bUyy_a5z-v-9U0qV_mcmpu8uTaWuH_k0Y/s400/Valborg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245544384487038610" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FYB5Mbd9jJI&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FYB5Mbd9jJI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /></span></span>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-2566625623352238982008-09-13T21:25:00.006+10:002008-09-14T03:09:13.710+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Royal Danish Ballet (May 1903) - Valborg Borchsenius </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >(1872-1949) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >and Hans Beck (1861-1951) in 'Napoli'</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><i><span style=""></span></i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW1mK7K-X0OKHfLX5vCibBiQE0kTK-9lIuMT7bYahl8yfumrx6YYuoV0TXdFfIU9MP7O0swI8G8C2tST7XOfe_iCpGCaQKaw8iSx1tcgiPenQ0dQgtEskHV0IVRZ_5BJ1I0Eqk/s1600-h/Valborg+Photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW1mK7K-X0OKHfLX5vCibBiQE0kTK-9lIuMT7bYahl8yfumrx6YYuoV0TXdFfIU9MP7O0swI8G8C2tST7XOfe_iCpGCaQKaw8iSx1tcgiPenQ0dQgtEskHV0IVRZ_5BJ1I0Eqk/s400/Valborg+Photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245549155475158466" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><i><span style="">Valborg Borchsenius et<span style=""> </span>Hans Beck - 1900</span></i></span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D7fpUw23gv4&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D7fpUw23gv4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /></span>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-91522436381046968732008-09-13T21:18:00.002+10:002008-09-13T21:24:17.129+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Royal Danish Ballet (1902) - Clara Rasmussen and Margrethe Andersen</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEe2NKOQyYMOJlQvVBlPvYS3h_2mqlVDYb48Mi74ZUDUwA8AXcNzIF7S6xISLjFxjPOJMIPklg-h1iVCkmxV_KMtyA-Pwk46lYyGVZJLa2ydzt4ohKyDRhv0zFtcCpzwr6w3b/s1600-h/Royal+Danish+Ballet+1902.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEe2NKOQyYMOJlQvVBlPvYS3h_2mqlVDYb48Mi74ZUDUwA8AXcNzIF7S6xISLjFxjPOJMIPklg-h1iVCkmxV_KMtyA-Pwk46lYyGVZJLa2ydzt4ohKyDRhv0zFtcCpzwr6w3b/s400/Royal+Danish+Ballet+1902.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245464737293496210" border="0" /></a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CPvoyu-QYG0&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CPvoyu-QYG0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-88446932069315445732008-09-12T04:05:00.004+10:002008-09-12T04:14:27.365+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Anna Pavlova in an Unidentified Ballet in the 1920s</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3cei-sB47RxtWQoaYry3vuJvaiLwtlQ8unEGEkq98H-lWyqRS2HjYR_3rCSDgOUwJC0nBb-ky-_tqpQAv_XTjKiOXAaYu79wJRuoJizpzAs6SS1pJoARehcm76eUKENSi3Vpf/s1600-h/annapavlova192024pl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3cei-sB47RxtWQoaYry3vuJvaiLwtlQ8unEGEkq98H-lWyqRS2HjYR_3rCSDgOUwJC0nBb-ky-_tqpQAv_XTjKiOXAaYu79wJRuoJizpzAs6SS1pJoARehcm76eUKENSi3Vpf/s400/annapavlova192024pl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244828679690992562" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6nIoixCVy3k&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6nIoixCVy3k&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-78680574593096445252008-09-12T04:01:00.002+10:002008-09-12T04:05:13.024+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Anna Pavlova - 'The Fairy Doll' (1927) Part 2</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9aIDxZiTK02tTJaOrf4KcyetCTbqg8m2lwmZpn89q0_3V8O1RBOnzGYjy82Rwf00JHBGarAiWZdqGV8PiL-5tmI7-SwYJg6A8JAN-NUu3WI7pml_T6RWcJ56EE9BOd3VQUF2j/s1600-h/9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9aIDxZiTK02tTJaOrf4KcyetCTbqg8m2lwmZpn89q0_3V8O1RBOnzGYjy82Rwf00JHBGarAiWZdqGV8PiL-5tmI7-SwYJg6A8JAN-NUu3WI7pml_T6RWcJ56EE9BOd3VQUF2j/s400/9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244825853479399314" border="0" /></a><br />This is the second part of the sequence of Anna Pavlova dancing in 'The Fairy Doll' in 1927.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/frzfws7DTEU&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/frzfws7DTEU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-49556357985756898532008-09-12T03:50:00.004+10:002008-09-12T04:01:51.338+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Anna Pavlova - 'The Fairy Doll' (1927) Part 1</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MAHO5aK3uQhygNVXL8TEf_5U3P3JH-xKiDLwWH-4HmQb37gcyCCXhCmK6tX5-h2pEGGo-SQ1i6Q_hXdCbpb0l-ElI0Z6JBPzbwaYfIaNYJU63e3Fwvo47BainwHdKL_VB-VQ/s1600-h/0e+Anna+Pavlova+Dressing+Room.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MAHO5aK3uQhygNVXL8TEf_5U3P3JH-xKiDLwWH-4HmQb37gcyCCXhCmK6tX5-h2pEGGo-SQ1i6Q_hXdCbpb0l-ElI0Z6JBPzbwaYfIaNYJU63e3Fwvo47BainwHdKL_VB-VQ/s400/0e+Anna+Pavlova+Dressing+Room.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244824507759722514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Anna Pavlova in her dressing room - 1920s</span><br /></div><br />This is the first of two parts of Anna Pavlova in 'The Fairy Doll' (1927).<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qcZzarh8ve0&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qcZzarh8ve0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-62536339296607254002008-09-11T20:30:00.005+10:002008-09-12T04:00:33.191+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Anna Pavlova - 'Californian Poppy'</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkmblJdgzIsInLEV4VE91OsYDq7CJFz2Fqkp1BX_jnQ1iUfcBK9izYn-LMPDqo54mfvGZt_7-Rl_aSXMH3cITvFVn9XemBD8CQVXKJ-MPZ-4Tt2_i5kuNbxG7qruM-nvff1O-/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkmblJdgzIsInLEV4VE91OsYDq7CJFz2Fqkp1BX_jnQ1iUfcBK9izYn-LMPDqo54mfvGZt_7-Rl_aSXMH3cITvFVn9XemBD8CQVXKJ-MPZ-4Tt2_i5kuNbxG7qruM-nvff1O-/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244710358274612562" border="0" /></a><br />Anna Pavlova dancing in 'Californian Poppy' sometime in the 1920's.<br /><br />The costume very literally realizes the name of the ballet in its 'petals'.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4Z59e8YrbXk&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4Z59e8YrbXk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><object height="350" width="425"></object></span>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-28942295478385128692008-09-11T00:48:00.004+10:002008-09-11T01:26:21.843+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:130%;" >Tamara Karsavina - More of the c1920 Kirov Class - the Battements and Jettes!</span><br /></div><br />Some more of the footage of Karsavina's c1920 class at the Kirov Theatre.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQ_vPvrTa6UdLEvzpZscDYf2CTwsnvtkwePrKp7Y5CPnTV4xjTOPVuOCu8O_Uq9xXrwxvHwsCSnewgri2eZK5c5dKCMSw7nl60Y1gtlx85MlfpV9fc1ZDSebfwD0eKD_O_m9E/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoQ_vPvrTa6UdLEvzpZscDYf2CTwsnvtkwePrKp7Y5CPnTV4xjTOPVuOCu8O_Uq9xXrwxvHwsCSnewgri2eZK5c5dKCMSw7nl60Y1gtlx85MlfpV9fc1ZDSebfwD0eKD_O_m9E/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244410418447182274" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WjezbLGbRDIZk_zvlrmpfPscMX4FE1TveAMd5OUL8MlpBaTY3lwp-IV1SAByS_MV3stDv_0Oxh-BCE1ar6yYm6Lp5a4TLmpvvn85ckaCT-4eUkkwZSsNwWMZlBw4LFiQfmaO/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WjezbLGbRDIZk_zvlrmpfPscMX4FE1TveAMd5OUL8MlpBaTY3lwp-IV1SAByS_MV3stDv_0Oxh-BCE1ar6yYm6Lp5a4TLmpvvn85ckaCT-4eUkkwZSsNwWMZlBw4LFiQfmaO/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244410417427637714" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRrBgp70R_m2NvhM7ENdq286k5q70tHAdSpTcCOAyl-dYx22eiSXxNydSBqwdSTi8anoFIi-WmaNTnRRRAqhTD5iM4r4gpjboNqUvEWi0koc5p-fv1CinqbZJAgrAG9Huypy0a/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRrBgp70R_m2NvhM7ENdq286k5q70tHAdSpTcCOAyl-dYx22eiSXxNydSBqwdSTi8anoFIi-WmaNTnRRRAqhTD5iM4r4gpjboNqUvEWi0koc5p-fv1CinqbZJAgrAG9Huypy0a/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244410421718034914" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyC6V4XdUMe7WO-sPQcdYqOHkHbyEoRpphJvPHsziclpGXOFgjFFjVH0CNt1ELtUboagRZUijA1FfdXQ2GOVfypqL44VR6aDyegIPMSUr2AlUPs62_xN6boFhMnnR8vY7nJAeb/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyC6V4XdUMe7WO-sPQcdYqOHkHbyEoRpphJvPHsziclpGXOFgjFFjVH0CNt1ELtUboagRZUijA1FfdXQ2GOVfypqL44VR6aDyegIPMSUr2AlUPs62_xN6boFhMnnR8vY7nJAeb/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244410426558830594" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEUMZFKCAaxFmeryr7_4ReLzNvIdt5_0gIHoFnGjloV2kT8n5_ZBZaNO4-W8FiKg57KYP-y6ujcuyyzStxcSKTTNsZK4gIdaAW0BEsruHrGqhiO2POcTrmFmFb-FMxMdLTYka/s1600-h/7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqEUMZFKCAaxFmeryr7_4ReLzNvIdt5_0gIHoFnGjloV2kT8n5_ZBZaNO4-W8FiKg57KYP-y6ujcuyyzStxcSKTTNsZK4gIdaAW0BEsruHrGqhiO2POcTrmFmFb-FMxMdLTYka/s400/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244410426197670994" border="0" /></a><br />The battements ...<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sasovfiahfU&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sasovfiahfU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />and the jetes<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/erOfPBV4xyI&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/erOfPBV4xyI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Hope some more turns up!Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-71961972994037370992008-08-31T22:01:00.003+10:002008-08-31T22:12:35.407+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 153);font-size:130%;" >La Goulue - Louise Weber (1866-1929) - Cancan Star of Le Moulin Rouge</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh248wUNiniohKlsuKLhT6vad1dnd3i57NOSut1JW7pTw6b3uSUE7VU4irSd2VQ7PkxjAhF0iH_GJN-STwECyp1CLNNSN2DmWof4hkctFY9Ir0nyqExRIT5Wr1DAGEPLXSEhyphenhyphenL/s1600-h/Toulouse-Lautrec_-_Moulin_Rouge_-_La_Goulue.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh248wUNiniohKlsuKLhT6vad1dnd3i57NOSut1JW7pTw6b3uSUE7VU4irSd2VQ7PkxjAhF0iH_GJN-STwECyp1CLNNSN2DmWof4hkctFY9Ir0nyqExRIT5Wr1DAGEPLXSEhyphenhyphenL/s400/Toulouse-Lautrec_-_Moulin_Rouge_-_La_Goulue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240651739112945186" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DLCMApiNckQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DLCMApiNckQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-47384493871725778482008-08-31T21:19:00.006+10:002008-08-31T21:38:13.928+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Adolph Bolm (1884-1958) - Famed Ballets Russes Dancer</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxlEWCfUbn8aLWaowDrb2TfiZ-Veb4KUDezk94Hg9O_LTlED4Ik2KeaAwIYfYNMFah9sbxoKatS6P5KI_n90Yt7O8Oens7ChkiGo7Hu9_l44A3zRPGWufZEswf0wk-tWDoPsy/s1600-h/Bolm+and+Karsavina+Firebird+1911.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxlEWCfUbn8aLWaowDrb2TfiZ-Veb4KUDezk94Hg9O_LTlED4Ik2KeaAwIYfYNMFah9sbxoKatS6P5KI_n90Yt7O8Oens7ChkiGo7Hu9_l44A3zRPGWufZEswf0wk-tWDoPsy/s400/Bolm+and+Karsavina+Firebird+1911.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240643658678503074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Bolm and Karsavina in Firebird (1911)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vWtkkHlwzoA1Er7Z3QhwLcktukX8RTqmsUyBlxQz4MQ6gK_I3jOuIOQWWyo-CMPSy5vyO4MLwe2SyKFGEiJvcpzBvaHYyQH0LzGTQMtrUv1ek6FugtwX2KJAvLZCo7uTDsRv/s1600-h/OB_DanceMacabre_1924_400.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vWtkkHlwzoA1Er7Z3QhwLcktukX8RTqmsUyBlxQz4MQ6gK_I3jOuIOQWWyo-CMPSy5vyO4MLwe2SyKFGEiJvcpzBvaHYyQH0LzGTQMtrUv1ek6FugtwX2KJAvLZCo7uTDsRv/s400/OB_DanceMacabre_1924_400.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240644272843818706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Bolm in 'DanceMacabre' (1924)</span><br /></div><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TQjrKe6KxPw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TQjrKe6KxPw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><vid><br />This site ...<br /><br /></vid><div style="text-align: center;"><vid><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.adolphbolm.com/archive/Ballets/DanseMacabre/OB_DanceMacabre_1924_400.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.adolphbolm.com/html/danseur.html&h=579&w=400&sz=15&hl=en&start=4&sig2=iX5CVaUWlH5MrvoXjhr64w&usg=__24mWtPXHh3ySUwM0pnqfh7GmVnw=&tbnid=9JRZL1BnZD-Y4M:&tbnh=134&tbnw=93&ei=a366SKvBFYGaoQTi9r3gAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dadolph%2Bbolm%2Bdance%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG</span></span></vid><br /><vid></vid></div><vid><br />... has tons of photos of Bolm in various ballets and places him in the context of the Ballets Russes and C20 dance in general through listing publications and his papers.<br /></vid>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-51236761530013341912008-08-22T15:28:00.005+10:002008-08-22T15:44:30.259+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >More </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >'Footage' of </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Nijinsky in 'L'apres midi d'un faune' </span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTSTaBHcgWE50ypn07gnhRxgwfqenWX8G8FEcyVI0FQRXP6eHME7uAsIq36uANHgWdx-a4nOpD5c228By4jNzro45rZbPnav-CqpTFWPBSO4MHNAY__9dEIrmwV3e2samKG2H7/s1600-h/0+PM_NijinFaunSepia.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTSTaBHcgWE50ypn07gnhRxgwfqenWX8G8FEcyVI0FQRXP6eHME7uAsIq36uANHgWdx-a4nOpD5c228By4jNzro45rZbPnav-CqpTFWPBSO4MHNAY__9dEIrmwV3e2samKG2H7/s400/0+PM_NijinFaunSepia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237211371472398866" border="0" /></a><br />More footage if Nijinsky dancing in 'L'apres midi d'un faune' has appeared.<br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_eV7efI4-QQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_eV7efI4-QQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCjYpAle-L0JAt8Fxdk7PmtfOACtBjtrQoFO5IkiX2OstGpR_U5RCECLEmf3oY_Yoz1cLjIzS2-eXhUoQodmnf74fImHE94nzQY48KkBIsYsgYvJUxUdhbeqE-qr3lKqQxZQb-/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCjYpAle-L0JAt8Fxdk7PmtfOACtBjtrQoFO5IkiX2OstGpR_U5RCECLEmf3oY_Yoz1cLjIzS2-eXhUoQodmnf74fImHE94nzQY48KkBIsYsgYvJUxUdhbeqE-qr3lKqQxZQb-/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237211370248378082" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUTcg5Nfi15iJHmSJUMSDFsGKGohmcalVjckOk4iZFbFZQOy_e5Hd_nbWg_xD7na9Sd856Z-WJFQKWet5ojaZ1lfGmDpFNIrejwJWAlTYTn-VrJGAG1IhUf0CjwiGZikHDOA-/s1600-h/2+nijinsky_Faun2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUTcg5Nfi15iJHmSJUMSDFsGKGohmcalVjckOk4iZFbFZQOy_e5Hd_nbWg_xD7na9Sd856Z-WJFQKWet5ojaZ1lfGmDpFNIrejwJWAlTYTn-VrJGAG1IhUf0CjwiGZikHDOA-/s400/2+nijinsky_Faun2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237211372907028466" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyVQQc7OaXwYspFNYlPz0kfhdT8UPD8HFstuPgywlHYI5EebHFSa-2TIIh2IMg0zj-a3s5lIgr1FaqzbG4sbUNn20Oo93d56iz7DBPm2kPnXs4c-7yyCjXHDjJwElbJ4q1TXBA/s1600-h/3+Nijinsky+%27L%27apres+midi+d%27un+faune%27+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyVQQc7OaXwYspFNYlPz0kfhdT8UPD8HFstuPgywlHYI5EebHFSa-2TIIh2IMg0zj-a3s5lIgr1FaqzbG4sbUNn20Oo93d56iz7DBPm2kPnXs4c-7yyCjXHDjJwElbJ4q1TXBA/s400/3+Nijinsky+%27L%27apres+midi+d%27un+faune%27+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237211374480570178" border="0" /></a><br />I suspect something like Jim Clark's 'poem animation' - see:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"> http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/poetrylad</span><br /></div><br />What do you think?<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyVQQc7OaXwYspFNYlPz0kfhdT8UPD8HFstuPgywlHYI5EebHFSa-2TIIh2IMg0zj-a3s5lIgr1FaqzbG4sbUNn20Oo93d56iz7DBPm2kPnXs4c-7yyCjXHDjJwElbJ4q1TXBA/s1600-h/3+Nijinsky+%27L%27apres+midi+d%27un+faune%27+2.jpg"><br /></a>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-37834222128765346942008-08-16T00:17:00.015+10:002008-08-22T14:54:11.057+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:130%;" >Tamara Karsavina Exercises at the Mariinsky Theatre c1920</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhDuoEhwtUq9tbt7RUgfE7ra6wj4nZ0T_fTydvkHd3VIx9L1jy8k05PfjW2TxllEEY0yXGnHhu_tPTtF1Wdfv68XpmvpL7LIfpHyW8QngXFZKv5G0rBirAvkHCO8-gMJwhvtq/s1600-h/Karsavina_005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhDuoEhwtUq9tbt7RUgfE7ra6wj4nZ0T_fTydvkHd3VIx9L1jy8k05PfjW2TxllEEY0yXGnHhu_tPTtF1Wdfv68XpmvpL7LIfpHyW8QngXFZKv5G0rBirAvkHCO8-gMJwhvtq/s400/Karsavina_005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234750257073140114" border="0" /></a><br />Finally I managed to locate the footage of Tamara Karsavina doing exercises at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersberg c1920.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNx5T341-KGKw9Oz-DXlyaRbYOZusW13ilcj1q0TBE3eJCS0RW7z56KBOBSWRn8NfOAnWG4GObpnsC89LXdXR7b1GV8gQVFo3vvZm2-ZdqShXejxWzBSImH-dxcg_t3WsQKeIM/s1600-h/karsav09.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNx5T341-KGKw9Oz-DXlyaRbYOZusW13ilcj1q0TBE3eJCS0RW7z56KBOBSWRn8NfOAnWG4GObpnsC89LXdXR7b1GV8gQVFo3vvZm2-ZdqShXejxWzBSImH-dxcg_t3WsQKeIM/s400/karsav09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234750256937786194" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Karsavina in 'Les Papillions'<br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrYs1-a192dPGXBrgm9ER44XFVBatw5ckVpuhlmho6o7MhhGGszUoU-gyaKrTTUl7hcqcl_q8N72lRXdosFcgSI7o76uLoATyGElToTA-7smDQpTImF86lMQu4n1mY6MwNxExB/s1600-h/Tamara_Karsavina_1885_-_1978___cleopatre.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrYs1-a192dPGXBrgm9ER44XFVBatw5ckVpuhlmho6o7MhhGGszUoU-gyaKrTTUl7hcqcl_q8N72lRXdosFcgSI7o76uLoATyGElToTA-7smDQpTImF86lMQu4n1mY6MwNxExB/s400/Tamara_Karsavina_1885_-_1978___cleopatre.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234750258450624210" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Karsavina in 'Cleopatre'<br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoqXPB6WZJV3kupc5ksU3feyxpZ_WRtpiJktBPXMueIkKbsM4L4v2KSZfWzK27ZmZoD9AWprSG6JlK1tsP8EHR7jOjzBlXMH5on7Ya31zJmhH6-VAiwM58T3PGdFKzaz6_zoA/s1600-h/Karsavina.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoqXPB6WZJV3kupc5ksU3feyxpZ_WRtpiJktBPXMueIkKbsM4L4v2KSZfWzK27ZmZoD9AWprSG6JlK1tsP8EHR7jOjzBlXMH5on7Ya31zJmhH6-VAiwM58T3PGdFKzaz6_zoA/s400/Karsavina.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234750264460694242" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Karsavina in 'Firebird'<br /><br /></span></div>There is so little film of any of the dancers from the Serge Diaghilev era of the 'Ballets Russes'.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzGOOSdCnueYS5A2jH2QUen3By64RkOglqGCOYmqmDEDnbQ33Fyc7SZRn97sS0LEbw3olqOI4VWgRI' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Just fragments of footage of Anna Pavlova, Olga Spessitzseva, Anton Dolin, Alicia Markova, Alexand Alexandra Danilova and a tiny handful of others.<br /></div>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-18284310865914343692008-08-08T20:01:00.008+10:002008-08-09T14:50:55.234+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >More of Olga Spessivtzseva (1895-1991) in Act One of 'Giselle'<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-AxH6iMj_xC7IJqssdi02KgWEhWv2KNDvgg62r7B8zxqA_K-Hua4JI23AqpIfNxMBB0_griOibd7aFeQcNAf68njL9CS4CJPNRvDJs3sWVNnwdAKojMqcEjonvJWgsATU4hs/s1600-h/Olga+Spessivtseva+in+Giselle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-AxH6iMj_xC7IJqssdi02KgWEhWv2KNDvgg62r7B8zxqA_K-Hua4JI23AqpIfNxMBB0_griOibd7aFeQcNAf68njL9CS4CJPNRvDJs3sWVNnwdAKojMqcEjonvJWgsATU4hs/s400/Olga+Spessivtseva+in+Giselle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232090510851451394" border="0" /></a><br /></div>I've come across more footage of Olga Spessivtzseva as 'Giselle'.<br /><br />It is also from the only known film of her dancing which was recorded at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1932. Her Albrecht was another Ballets Russes dancer, Anton Dolin.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij25V_YZBWfIJgro5CzVQF9PNzzP_UYPnDUcqd_GVJSysD8H_iolB-1haaUS9PEzeTHoQ_lo7y6kPtieBs52AX5gppBqgZLw8-7gpEnWBHtmrSA-uUKc6f9PqBb7HDOSACz1Zg/s1600-h/Dolin_Anton-001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij25V_YZBWfIJgro5CzVQF9PNzzP_UYPnDUcqd_GVJSysD8H_iolB-1haaUS9PEzeTHoQ_lo7y6kPtieBs52AX5gppBqgZLw8-7gpEnWBHtmrSA-uUKc6f9PqBb7HDOSACz1Zg/s400/Dolin_Anton-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232089116682662226" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Anton Dolin in Les Ballets Russes 'Le Train Bleu' (1924)</span><br /></div><br />The two clips below are essentially the same.<br /><br />However, the first begins a little earlier in the ballet (as Giselle is coming out of her mother's cottage) and ends with Dolin chatting with Spessivtzseva about how much he enjoyed dancing with her.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxJlo58DBGS5fiVjnm1yaYVxtK8G3CdyKfdTj9XhBCQITTFcQ-5f-RENVEdlRC7mvQbKJHan-oeBsU' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /></div><br />The second begins with Giselle already out-of-doors and dancing, and ends with Dolin questioning her about identity of the composer of the music (not Adam) of one of her solos.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxa66K6aFLifJ7the-v0L-r6RXnL4NUaTl8XXVlLHAK4WHTPyS9mVmcO5GtVW25C0lheP-DAbxiPAs' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><br />He is a bit brutally insistent with these questions, and doesn't really take it gently and slowly enough to allow her to consider a response.Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-71638557170516339192008-08-08T01:37:00.003+10:002008-08-08T01:48:00.901+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Olga Spessivtzseva (1895-1991) in Act One of 'Giselle'</span><br /></div><br />Another amazing find - of Olga Spessivtzseva in 'Giselle'!<br /><br />Spessivtzseva is initially being interviewed by Anton Dolin, an old partner. And then dances part of Act One.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzNqQ0LuR1gTVA1Aacn7eqDNd3WkHTupap53b5PpURg5ejeGzna8b7GIiJGP5fjjk1-FnFHAER8asU' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />As you may know, her career was cut short by madness and hospitalization.<br /><br />Then later in life she made some kind of recovery - though it may just have been that a 'suitable' medication was found.<br /><br />She was the perfect dancer, dancing to her inner music own rather than that played by the orchestra.Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34017633.post-47025655621203111262008-08-08T01:26:00.005+10:002008-08-09T15:28:57.906+10:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" >Vaslav Nijinsky in 'L'apres-midi d'un faune' (1912)</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DMB-6Jy_H6IdWDLLqaz8AbsQzuJYTvenARJ4oP7QvsFunD6aQg92bpEqdGFKgenL6M8qUf-m7vDYklugqCqhB7L9Q85Iainu_zhIY7LSEBFmFmxQ315iEmzDV7N4yZ1Eacx8/s1600-h/nijinsky01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DMB-6Jy_H6IdWDLLqaz8AbsQzuJYTvenARJ4oP7QvsFunD6aQg92bpEqdGFKgenL6M8qUf-m7vDYklugqCqhB7L9Q85Iainu_zhIY7LSEBFmFmxQ315iEmzDV7N4yZ1Eacx8/s400/nijinsky01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232385225561449842" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Unbelievably, I noticed footage today of Nijinsky in 'l'apres-midi d'un faune'.<br /><br />26 seconds worth, discovered in 2006 in the archive of Louis MAISTRE (1862-1948) and now uploaded onto YouTube by his descendant Christian Comte, with the accompanying information:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" > 'nijinsky original movie of nijinsky dance 1912 film inédit de Nijinsky sur fragment de pellicule découvert en 2006 dans les archives de Louis Maistre http://www.christiancomte.fr' </span><br /></div> <br />The legendary dancer's movement seems strangely and evenly fluid, and so slightly unnatural.<br /><br />And there are a couple of seeming 're-takes', like rap music where the record is being wound back and forward.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxtNduIyOoifCKNB7bcvy5f6snWKC2nLQYL_sE2yC05vtMQbgbSEXNAYAKIY2z9O_A7DyvNZZbGd4o' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Alex de Ravinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02451670815693819558noreply@blogger.com3