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[ViolinConcerto]

I am also glad it's happening, but we have to consider that this film will be putting out the hat to raise funds, and right now, there's really not enough to go all around.  I hope that films like "In Balanchine's Classroom," will not lose out.

[pherank]

carbro, on 21 June 2012 - 11:41 AM, said:

A friend pointed out that none of the clips in the American Masters Balanchine documentary exceeded 60 seconds, apparenly the standard for audio/video fair use.  I hope that for this project, rights holders grant permissions for longer excerpts.

There isn't a great deal of footage available on Tanny, certainly not available to the public, but there is fairly tangible evidence that there is more under wraps as it were,  in the NY Public Library and Jerome Robbins Library collections (as mentioned in this thread: http://balletalert.i...quil-le-clercq/

La Valse (in many ways Le Clercq's signature role) is apparently on film:
http://www.worldcat..../oclc/438155528

Note the documentary website is at this URL as well, and there's some actual project info on this page:
http://derekbritt.co...rnoon-of-a-faun

[Natalia]

She starred in the 1952 TV drama, A Candle for St. Jude, which includes some dance. Alas, I couldn't find it on YouTube.

http://movies.msn.co...le-for-st-jude/

There's actually quite a bit of Le Clercq on celluloid, including what's in the NYPL. It's just not out in the open/commercially available.

[rg]

A CANDLE FOR ST. JUDE was released, at least, at one point for however long such videos are released, on videocassette. maybe Beta but also, if mem. serves, also VHS.

[Natalia]

Thanks, RG.

I'm also sure that most readers here are aware of the film of Le Clercq/D'Amboise dancing Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, as part of the VAI DVD The Art of the Pas de Deux, Part 3.

Edited to add:
VAI also released said pdd in the D'Amboise compilation, Portrait of a Great American Dancer.

[Neryssa]

Didn't Balanchine choreograph Le Clercq in Cinderella in the late 1940s for television? I hope Nancy Buirski and Ric Burns are able to release their documentary earlier than later this year. I have been waiting for it all my life.

[Mme. Hermine]

CINDERELLA

Made for Television
Music: By Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (excerpts from Symphonies Nos. 1 [1866, revised 1874] and 2 [1872, revised 1879]; adagio from Symphony No. 3 [1875]).
Choreography: By George Balanchine.
Production: Produced by Paul Belanger.
Cast: Cinderella, Tanaquil Le Clercq; Fairy, Jimmy Savo; Ugly Sisters, Ruth Sobotka, Pat McBride; Prince, Herbert Bliss; corps de ballet.

First Telecast:April 25, 1949, Through the Crystal Ball, CBS.

[Natalia]

There was also a one-hr TV version of Coppelia ca 1952, starring Le Clercq, but with an odd title that I do not recall.