eabock Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 I'm trying to locate a scene by scene description of the dancing in this Cranko ballet. I saw it performed in 1953. (see Ballet Annual 1953, pp31-35.) Can anyone suggest where in New York or London I might find details and photographs? Edwin Bock Link to comment
Jane Simpson Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 Ed, you need Richard Buckle's Ballet magazine for June 1952, which has an immensely detailed description of the action by Cyril Beaumont - pages and pages of it! There's also quite a lot about it, with rather more pictures, in Dance and Dancers, May 1952. I assume NYPL would have both of these. Link to comment
eabock Posted August 17, 2003 Author Share Posted August 17, 2003 Jane, Pleasant to be in touch again -- with you being helpful as of yore. Many thanks. Here's a coincidence: I found that Ballet Annual in the second-hand section of a Barnes and Noble store right next to Franks biography of Svetlana Berisova -- the same book, you may recall, I was looking for when we went to the old ballet bookshop. Its cover largely intact. That made me think of our expedition -- and now your helpful advice seems to close the circle. Not quite closed. I will be in London the last two weeks of September. Any additional Cranko-Beriosova hunting grounds come to mind? Ed Link to comment
Jane Simpson Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Ed, you might try the Theatre Museum - or did you go there last time? The only problem is that their reading room gets booked up very early, so if you do find they've got some interesting stuff you need to be reserving a space very soon - like now! Link to comment
eabock Posted August 19, 2003 Author Share Posted August 19, 2003 Jane, I'll try to review the Bonne Bouche materials you kindly listed above when I go to the J. Robbins NYPL library next week. (Budget cuts have forced that library to open only in the afternoons now.) Four of my days in England will be spent in Oxford attending the Waugh centennial conference. (Sept 24-27) Has anyone made a ballet in which Waugh appears? A short, energetic and somewhat comic person -- might be fun to depict. (Perhaps a pdd with Nancy Mitford, or maybe in a ballet version of Brideshead?) Do you think any retired members of the RB who worked with Svetlana would be willing to talk about their recollections? I will get to work on the Theater Museum as you suggest. Hope to see you in London. Ed Link to comment
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