Mme. Hermine

FYI, two of Miss Page's ballerinas, Dolores Lipinski and Patricia Klekovic, will be there in person for this. Here is a film in which they appear together, filmed for TV in 1961, "Doctor Bat" (Fledermaus). Ms. Lipinski plays Adele, the maid, and Ms. Klekovic plays Rosalinda. Larry Long is the proprietor of the shop at the beginning of the film, the part of Otto the valet is played by Orrin Kayan (whose brother Neal conducted the orchestra). Kenneth Johnson plays Eisenstein, Rosalinda's husband, and Charles Schick is Dr. Falke. In the later film, the cast was Marianna Tcherkassky and Galina Panov in the two female leads, Valery Panov as Dr. Falke, Danilo Radojevic as Otto, Ricardo Moyano as the shopkeeper and Richard Cragun as Eisenstein.George Daugherty conducted the orchestra in the later version. http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8777

I understand it will be filmed for the Dance Collection.

I have to confess, I'm unimpressed with what I've seen of the costumes. I've seen what there is to see of the original designs, and they really couldn't have made them exactly like that, either in terms of the fabrics or the designs. But I don't think they are all intelligent adaptations of them either. Find a picture of the original design for the Act 1 costume for Aurora, for instance, then put it next to the photo I saw of Vishneva in her entrance. I don't like either one, and I don't think the new one does anyone any favors. That's just that one in particular. Strangely enough also, I think the men were better served; I liked Gomes' hunting jacket a great deal, for instance. Just my opinion of course.

It's the Silverware Fairy!

I think it was Donald Byrd who choreographed one for City Opera in 1997

Double hooray then; this is the second version, considerably different and much better filmed. The figure of Death is Richard Collins. http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8797

More from this collection. Ruth Page made two versions of Carmina, and this is the first. Harold Kreutzberg had made concert appearances with Ruth Page circa the 1930s and here he is the figure of Death. In her second version, Death was more immobile; here he has a lot of movement. It's a rehearsal film from 1965. http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8764

My recollection is that Ruth Page's company was AGMA. If someone knows otherwise, let me know. I think they would have had to be to perform at McCormick Place and the Opera House. Miss Page had some money but my other recollection is that her money did not fund the Chicago Ballet entirely because I recall hearing that her husband Mr. Fisher had constructed things so that she couldn't, as he knew she might have wanted to (he was a well known attorney). I much preferred the original designs for her Nut (Act 1 by Rolf Gerard and Act 2 by Karinska) but they did get a bit worn. I didn't care for the newer ones but the students are lucky to be dancing in them. I have to ask someone what happened to the sets. How many theatres could they fit? McCormick Place's Arie Crown, if I recall correctly, has a 90-foot proscenium.

And it should be noted that while the Ruth Page Nut ran, from 1965 to 1979 there was a Chicago Ballet company. As far as I know, the company was hired to dance in it; it was not one of their productions.

Well to be correct, it was owned by the Chicago Tribune Charities, which distributed profit to a list of Chicago area charities.

The costumes were gifted to the school by the Chicago Tribune, which always owned the production. I can't recall what happened to the sets. They're still used for their student company production.

I think Tulsa did it a number of years ago.

I believe it's Pennsylvania Ballet

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sergei-filins-undimmed-vision-for-the-bolshoi/

it is! when i counted the variation i counted the music ! Elizabeth Platel (circa 50 seconds) and Manuel Legris -

From a video of Melissa Hayden and Jacques d'Amboise, it appears she won the sweepstakes, coming in at a brisk 38 seconds!

sacre bleu.

I understood about Balanchine's approach, but using the word "affectations" to describe a characterization of a swan seemed odd.

Darci Kistler said this before the Swan Lake segment: "My history with this ballet, Swan Lake, was it was my workshop performance, so this is kind of like coming full circle for me. Madame Danilova taught me Odette, the swan queen. Everyone thinks oh, I just did it. No. It's all technique. Everything is thought out and technical and then you have to be spontaneous and you have to let it go....I remember Mr. Balanchine slapping me and telling me "Don't look at ABT, don't look at Makarova. I want you to be young and yourself." So I've tried not to put any of these affectations on the children and let them be their own imagination of what they think a swan is." I'm really conflicted about that last sentence.

http://www.ny1.com/content/shows/one_on_1/220084/one-on-1-profile--dancer-misty-copeland-s-reach-extends-beyond-the-world-of-ballet/

Choreographer Brian MacDonald has died. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/brian-macdonald-canadian-choreographer-dead-at-86-1.2855541

nice pose, don't like the transparency much.