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I found the photo in question in Keith Money's book p.221, thank you

rg, and i was wrong the photo is described as portraits by Eugene

Hutchinson,Chicago 1915 in costume for dance Espagnol for the

movie "Dumb Girl of Portici". I understand that Hutchinson must of

made a series of portrait photos of Pavlowa in various costumes for

the "Portici" movie. The are several examples of these photos in

several books, KM'S book p.218 & 221, on p.111 of Valerian Ivchenko

1974 edition of Anna Pavlova, on p.139 of John Lazzarini's book, and

on p.237 of Victor Dandre's book. It appears that Pavlowa was in

Chicago at least twice in 1915, (1) during the summer she was filming

a portion of "Portici" in Chicago and KM'S book has a photo of AP with

cameraman Dallen Clawson, AP dressed for Dance Espagnol persumably

for a martinee at midway gardens. I also found in NYTimes 6/9/1915

a small artical stating that AP will be filming the interior scenes

of "Portici" in Chicago while the AP ballet company is performing. The

second time AP was in Chicago in 1915 was on Oct 4 at the opening of

the Opera "Portici" by the Boston Grand Opera which AP bought with

$75,000 she made from the film "Portici" I will have to go thru the

last six months of the Chicago Tribune in 1915 to see if their is any

newspaper articals regarding Hutchinson & Pavlova, so little has been

written about Hutchinson even thought he photographer AP, Sarah

Bernhardt, Francine Dagmara, Andreas Pavley, Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet,

Ruth Page.

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**I made a wonderful discovery yesterday, the NYPL has the 1915 film

"The Dumb Girl of Portici" on internet video stream and can be access

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www.nypl.org/research/transformations/Nature/page11.html

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The first few mins has Pavlova dancing ballet in a white costume on

a black background, viewing it is almost a transcendental experience,

like seeing a ghost, viewing 88 years into the past and seeing Pavlova

dance as thought/ she is a goddess. A must see for a Pavlova fan who

has a high speed internet connection with a good intel processer.

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I plan to find out much as possible regarding the Pavlova/Hutchinson

series of photos, maybe i write a little artical.

Kevin

Well my photo post did not work, back to the drawing board

Hello

I can across this photograph of Anna Pavlowa three times in three unrelated

activities last month and i think fate has called to me to discover more. This

photograph was taken by a "famous" portrait photographer name Eugene

Hutchinson marked 1915 in Chicago, this photo appears in the photo book

Fugitive Gesture, The: Masterpieces of Dance Photography by William Ewing

and it states that it is part of the Gelman Paper Photo collection and not much

more is know about this photo. I have a Max Rabinoff ballet program of Pavlowa's

1914-1915 tour with this photo in the program, i think it is a publicity photo with

Anna in costume from the ballet Amarilla, since Amarilla is featured in the program

and this looks like a gyspy costume. There is a photo listed at the nypl performing

arts of a photo by hutchinson1915 but the ballet named is bolero ( MGZEA ) but the

photograph is not digitized and i have not see this photo. Can not find much on

Eugene Hutchinson even though he photographed ruth page, sarah bernheartd

Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet. I found a artical in on Hutchinson at the Chicago

public library in the magazine photo-era june 1914. but what do you folks think

of the costume, and any reference on Hutchinson.

This my first time at posting a photo, hope this works.

kevin

rg

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when did you start collecting( i assume) and posting old ballet photos, they are

wonderful, keep up the good work.

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kevin

I was browsing the NYPL.ORG performing arts library and found a reference,

for the collector Gennally Smakov who gave a collection of photographs used in

his book "The great Russian dancers" and most of the items date 1818-1917

so i am sure that their are photos of Russian Imperial Ballet Dancers.

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*MGZEB 92-17894

Author Smakov, Gennady, collector.

Title Photographs of Russian dancers.

Imprint 1818-1984.

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LOCATION CALL # STATUS

*MGZEB 92-17894

Descript 1 album (120 photoprints) : b&w. ; 31 x 31 cm.

Note Photographs collected for use as illustrations in Smakov's book, The great Russian dancers, published by Knopf, 1984, and for his unpublished biography of Marius Petipa.

Most of the items date from 1818 to 1917, with nine later than 1917, including two of Mikhail Baryshnikov as a child, ca. 1956, and one of him in Petrouchka, 1984.

Subject Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910

Aistov, Nikolai Sergeevich.

Astaf'eva, Serafima Aleksandrovna.

Baldina, Alexandra Vasil'evna, 1885-1977.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948-

Bogdanova, Aleksandra Aleksandrovna, 1861-

Bulgakov, Aleksei Dmitrievich, 1872-1954.

Chislova, Ekaterina Gavrilovna, 1845-1889.

Chumakova, Antonina Savel'evna, 1890-

Fabr, Aleksandra Aleksandrovna, b. 1847.

Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942.

Gerdt, Elizaveta Pavlovna, 1891-1975.

Gerdt, Pavel Andreevich, 1844-1917.

Gordova, Apollinaria Alekseevna.

Ivanov, Lev, 1834-1901.

Ivanova, Vera Nikolaevna.

Kulichevskaia, Klavdiia Mikhailovna, 1861-1923.

Kshessinska, Mathilde, 1872-1971.

Legat, Sergei Gustavovich, 1875-1905.

Legnani, Pierina, 1863-1923.

Leonova, Ol'ga Nikolaevna.

Luk'ianov, Sergei Ivanovich, 1859-1911.

Murav'ėva, Marfa Nikolaevna, 1838-1879.

Muromskaia, Lidiia Vissarionovna.

Nikitina, Varvara Aleksandrovna.

Obukhova, Evgeniia Konstantinovna.

Orlov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1889-

Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931.

Petipa, Marie Mariusovna.

Preobrajenska, Olga, 1870-1962.

Romanoff, Boris, 1891-1957.

Roslavleva, Liubov' Andreevna, 1874-1904.

Rubtsova, Lidiia Aleksandrovna, 1871-

Sedova, IUliia Nikolaevna, 1880-1969.

Trefilova, Vera, 1875-1943.

TSalison, Polina Viktorovna.

Urakova, Anna Petrovna.

Vazem, Ekaterina Ottovna, 1848-1937.

Vilzak, Anatole, 1898-

Vladimiroff, Pierre, 1893-1970.

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Kevin

I understand what you saying regarding the Lithuanian-Vasiliev version,

with the dancers and Orchastra on stage. The people here in Vilnius:Lithuania

tell me that in the ending of Vasiliev version Mstislav Rostropovich, the

Lithuanian conductor, gently linked the arms of the two dead lovers as

he continues to direct the orchastra.

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The Lith National Ballet is off in the summer so i could not see their

performance. :angry:

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Kevin

I understand the Joffrey will be opening its season with John Cranko's R & J,

also i know that the Lithuanain National Ballet performed its version (by

Vladimir Vasilev) in London this past spring played by the London Symphony

Orchastra under the baton of Lithanian's Mstislav Rostropovich. Also i have

a women friend who is a corps dancer for the Kremlin Theater of ballet and

they just did Yuri Grigorovich's version of R & J in Cypus and Lebanon last

month and of course she says the Grigorovich's version is better that the other

two versions.

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I am planning on attending the Joffrey's opening night performance in Oct,

seeing i just became a member of their Golden Ring Patron Circle,and it will

be my first R & J performance ever, does anyelse know the other versions

so to enlighten me on the differences so if ask by a fellow Joffrey patron about

the performance i can reply in a educated manner.

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KEVIN

The New York City Preforming Arts Library, Dance department has many of its

old photographs available via the internet,you can browse the catologue via

NYCPL INTERNET SITE and see a digital photo o you computer.

I do not know the address of the top of my head but you could find it via a

search engine.

Nude photos of ballet dancers have been done in the pass, the photographer

Howard Schatz has done three books with nude photos of ballet dancers mostly

from the San Franciso and Smuin (S.F.) ballets. Two of the books waterdance and

pool light were photographed underwater freeing the nude ballet dancer from the

effects of gravity, then Schatz also did Passion and Line.

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I wonder if the carears of any of the above women and men dancers suffered

negative effects posing nude for these photos.Modern dance performers are

sometimes in the buff to express their art,but a nude ballet dancer is rare.

kevin

I enjoy collecting Ballet & Dance old programs,books,stamps,postcards,

i looking to complete a collection of theater programs of the works of

M.Fokine after he left Russia.I have three copies of the play program

Aphrodite,Fokine did the chorography and was his first work when he

came to America in 1919 and i found on ebay Mecca,the second work

Fokine did in America.I like to collect old items in regards to the

Russian Ballet,Diaghilev's Ballet Russes,also books of old dance

photographs.

try www.used.addall.com

this is book supersite that connects to all the major internet book

sellers.

kevin

"thats two in a row"

Are you saying there are ballet articals in both

April and May's issues ?

kevin

The Kirov will be performing in Detroit at the M.O.T.

this Fall 2003,the tentative ballets that planned are

Balanchine's Jewels, Bayaderka, and two of M. Fokine ballets.

Kevin

I just now caught this thread,have you had any success in selling

these books,and where are these books located.

Kevin

Mel

I see the paperbook version available on www.used.addall.com

also i think the paperback is available thru the publisher

University of Wisconsin press for $21.95,but i will find out

tomorrow.

HAPPY NEW YEAR Kevin

I am a fan of Lopukhov and there is a new book regarding his writings

that was released in the last two months.I was wondering if anyone, like rg who i know is a big lover of F.L.,has see this book or has a

interest in this subject matter.I do not have this book yet,but will order this book tomorrow.

-Writings on Ballet and Music

-Fedor Lopukhov

-Edited and with an introduction by Stephanie Jordan

-TRANSLATIONS BY DORINDA OFFORD

-Studies in Dance History

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Although little-known in the West, Fedor Lopukhov was a leading figure

in Russia's dance world for more than sixty years and an influence on

many who became major figures in Western dance, such as George

Balanchine. As a choreographer, he staged the first post-revolutionary

productions of traditional ballets like Swan Lake and The Sleeping

Beauty as well as avant-garde and experimental works, including Dance

Symphony, Bolt, and a highly controversial version of The Nutcracker.

This first publication in English of Lopukhov's theoretical writings

will give readers a clear understanding of his seminal importance in

dance history and illuminate his role in the development of dance as a

nonnarrative, musically based form.

These writings present the rationale behind Lopukhov's attempt to

develop a "symphonic" ballet that would integrate the formal and

expressive elements of dance and music. They also show his finely

detailed knowledge of the classical heritage and his creative efforts to transmit major works to future generations. This edition explains notonly the making of his own controversial Dance Symphony but also the issues he saw at stake in productions of Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty,and other key works by Petipa and Fokine. Lopukhov's writings argue the details of choreographic devices with an unusual degree of precision,and his comments on composers and the musical repertoire used by hispredecessors and contemporaries are equally revealing. Stephanie Jordan's introduction deftly situates these writings within the context of Lopukhov's life and career and in relation to the theories,aesthetics, and practices of dance in the twentieth century.

"The availability of these finely translated essays in English (and

Stephanie Jordan's illuminating introduction) will educate the Western

world about the lost choreographer Fedor Lopukhov's role in the history of choreography, both experimental and classical, in Russia

and the Soviet Union, as well as his contribution to dance theory. It will shed light for both dance and music audiences on relations between music and ballet not only in Lopukhov's own works, but in the ballets of Marius Petipa, the nineteenth-century choreographer of the great ballet classics whose compositions Lopukhov scrutinized attentively and imaginatively."Sally Banes, University of Wisconsin Madison

Fedor Lopukhov (1886–1973) was born and lived most of his life in St.

Petersburg. He attended the ballet school affiliated with the Maryinsky (later Kirov) Theatre, where he made his debut in 1905, danced as a soloist until 1922, and served as artistic director from 1922 through the end of that decade and for brief periods during the 1940s and 1950s. Stephanie Jordan is research professor in dance at Roehampton University of Surrey.

The Joffery Ballet is coming to the Detroit Opera House in May 2003

and is performing Les Noces,Parade,and Le Sacre de Printemps.I have volunteered to organize some dance talks,to better the general public

interest and hopefully ticket sales,so i am looking for past reviews

in dance magazines and opinions of balletmanics who have seen

Diaghilev works by the Joffery.I understand that Alexandera's magazine

carried a review,along with Dance Magazine,of Joffery works at the

Kennedy center,about three years ago durning,a Balanchine celibration.

KEVIN

2/9/03 Annual Lunchin at Lincoln Center,topic Male Dancers

5/14/03 Spring Gala

6/9/03 Dance with the Dancers

For additional information telephone special events at

212-870-5585

Instead of spending all your time going from NYC book shop to bookshop,do what i like to do when visiting the big apple.I go to the NYC public library performing arts collection,located at Lincoln center,and just browse the 1000's of dance books in the collection.The NYCPL has more great dance books than 100 NYC books shops,plus they have a great collection of Dance Journals and Magazines.The staff at the NYCPL will allow almost all of their Journals and Magazines to be photocopyed so you can copy any articals you like.As for the Dance Books you would like to have,write down the title page information

author/publisher/book title and just search for the desired book on www.used.addall.com this internet book site has it search engine hooked into all the major used book sale internet sites.You will have much greater success of finding great dance/ballet books than visiting 10 NYC used book store with mostly a limited number of dance books.A dance person can get lost at the NYCPL dance collection and never want to leave,the collection of dance books is wonderful, magnificent, amazing,the people of NY should be prasied for this book collection.

Kevin from Detroit,wishing i was a New Yorker

Diamond will be on PBS in Detroit at 4 A.M. on June 2,i am going to need toothpicks to keep my eyes open for this performance !!!!!

Nijinsky opens May 29, 2002 at the Film Forum (located at 209 W.

Houston, between 6th Ave & Varick) NYC call 212-727-8110 for showtimes.

http://www.filmforum.com

http://www.nijinsky-movie.com

Vaslav Nijinsky was one of the most celebrated dancer/choreographers

of the 20th century, and undisputedly the greatest male dancer of his

era - "the God of the dance." Yet at the height of his career - as

with many artists ahead of their time - Nijinsky's modernist works

fiercely divided the ballet world. His sensual performance as the faun

in L'Apres-midi d'un Faune provoked a full blown scandal when the

ballet was first presented in Paris in 1912 - both for its erotic

overtones and its radical departure from traditional ballet.

Paul Cox's "Nijinsky" is based on the diary Cahiers begun in 1919, in

which Nijinsky recorded his inner turmoil, writing feverishly day and

night. The diary presents a remarkably raw, dramatic, painful and

ecstatic inner world, as Nijinsky expresses his feelings profoundly,

deeply, richly and honestly.

Looks like the Pavlova Museum at Ivy House is still open

on Saturdays 2-5 p.m.It is supposely where the Pavlova

Society is located.

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www.s-h-systems.co.uk/tourism/london/pavlova-museum.html

-I came across a illustrated souvenir theater program for a 1919

play called "Aphrodite:A Romance of Ancient Egypt" produced

by Morris Gest at the Century Theater in NYC.

-The program lists and illustrates a ballet called "Bacchanale"

chorographed by Michel Fokin and some of the costumes designs

by Leon Bakst.

-I read on a internet site that Aphrodite was one of the first jobs

that Fokin had when he first arrived in the USA.

-I also know that many verisons of "Bacchanale" were done later

by Martha Gramm,Ballet Russe Monte Carlo,etc.

-Is there any book that may have a history of Bacchanale?

-Aphrodite looks like something the same as Fokin's Ballet Russe

production of Cleopatre with i read is a rework of Fokine's

1908 "Egyptian Nights" at the Mariinsky.

-Egyptian Nights production is to incorporated the "Solemn

Procession led by the high priest" from the 1901 Lev Ivanov's

"Une Nuit Egypte"

-I wanted to know if "Bacchanale" dates farther back to the 19th

century as a Opera dance,part of a Ballet,or theater production.

KEVIN

Sorry !!!!

TRY http://catnyp.nypl.org/

Sorry !!!!

TRY http://catnyp.nypl.org/

I know the Bolshoi will be at the Detroit Opera House

for several performances of Swan lake in Nov 2002,

along with a DeGas Ballet Dancer painting exhibit.The

Degas exhibit will be at the Detroit Institute of Arts.