Mme. Hermine

The Chicago Film Archives are preserving the hundreds and hundreds of films in Ruth Page's collection and are slowly putting them on line. This is a rehearsal film in which Seymour and Schaufuss are dancing with the Chicago Ballet in January 1978. A little over a year later the company would disband. They were dancing here in a good theater (the Lyric Opera) with a full orchestra. As it is a rehearsal, sometimes someone wouldn't always dance full out. The Madge is Freddie Franklin and Effie is a girl named Cynthia Ann Roses. (The film isn't labeled apart from the title but I happened to have seen the rehearsal). If you look at it you need not to use Explorer, I was told it wouldn't work with that. Additionally the sound is low so put your speakers up as much as you can. http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/9202

I would suppose the answer is to find Pierre Lacotte and ask him. But the above advice is right, the teaching shouldn't begin until the permission is obtained.

Complete (a piece was posted some time ago but this is the whole feature)

Not to mention her later career as a diplomat/ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, I believe. RIP. This would be my favorite of her movies. Quite an actress, age 10, and more than held her own among a lot of very distinguished actors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMtvA1AQSOY

hmmmm

was it plisetskaya who put it into laurencia?

I've only seen Harlequinade once and the one dancer I recall was Deni Lamont - it's been a little while(!) don't recall if there was another ballet with it.

A New York Times obituary for Claudio Abbado, who passed away at age 80: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/arts/music/claudio-abbado-italian-conductor-dies-at-80.html?_r=0

...scared me there a bit.... assuming of course the content will exist somewhere?

Not often do I top off something I started so long ago! Today I found this episode on line -

I'm fairly certain that Madge may be Freddie Franklin; he was Ruth Page's balletmaster for a brief period.

Just found the Chicago Film Archive, which is working on preserving all of Ruth Page's films (and there are many!), and one of the 63 that are on line so far is this rehearsal of La Sylphide with Lynn Seymour and Peter Schaufuss and the Chicago Ballet from 1978. There is sound but it seems quite low and it also appears that the video only plays with Google Chrome, at least so far. There is also a list of what is on line so far from the collection; some are not her ballets but just people that she liked, like Nureyev, in other things. It doesn't say who they are but I saw the performance and rehearsal http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/9202

There isn't enough space on this site for me to talk about what dirac does in keeping the links updated all those days and being so meticulous about including everything she can. What I do is only a tiny drop in the bucket. Cheers and thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year to you all, with grateful wishes!

Well I wondered and assumed that as at one point the principal girl dances with just two others, that these were the two ?

ABT's site gives this information, which doesn't seem to answer the question: World Premiere: Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, 1/15/48 Designer: Erik Nordgreen Original Cast: Margot Lander, Hans Brenaa, Svend Erik Jensen, Inge Sand, Inge Goth ABT Premiere: 54th Street Theatre, New York, 10/5/61 Cast: Toni Lander, Royes Fernandez, Bruce Marks, Eleanor D'Antuono, Elisabeth Carroll

When it was staged in 1993 by Bruce Marks, it was the same girl, which I would say I prefer, and which I'm pretty sure was danced that way by ABT when he was there and still married to Toni Lander. Don't know about the original though.

Boston Ballet had also done it in 1993.

Oh I like it a lot. But the experience of live ballet on television in a somewhat cramped studio with closeups like that one must have been odd.

I tend to think,though,that this is somewhat because of the live performance situation. you can see stagehands here and there wandering in and out of shots, and I had thought she looked as though she was keeping her eye out for a cue or some such thing.

pretty sure the first is carol sumner

fantasia?

Actually this is basically it, performed a few years ago by a student group. The choreography for the couple (pas de deux, coda etc.) has been left basically the same with only a few small tweaks though that for the corps is almost entirely different.