Mme. Hermine

http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/7403

It could be, but the television broadcasts in this collection were not only off the air, they were captured and then digitized from reel to reel videotape, so I'd wager they were just captured in black and white?

From the Ruth Page Collection http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/9145

i dont know if these have been posted before; they're two incidental bits of film of Dudinskaya on one of her visits to Boston in the 1990s. in the first she is telling an anecdote about Vaganova's class and in the second she is conducting a rehearsal for Sleeping Beauty.

Since I love trivia the narrator, Jack Buchanan, is probably "baby"no. 3 in this number -

The death of Kenneth Johnson at age 89 was announced to me by a former dancing partner of his from the Ruth Page company. He had taught for many years in Pittsburgh after retiring. I don't have much more information but remember him as a particularly good partner. This film of a rehearsal begins with him in a solo. http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/7314

Thank you Helene!

Someone has just posted this in a single video - it may be the same as the previous one(s) but those were taken down.

The dancer in question was one George Church, who initiated the role of the Gangster on Broadway in On Your Toes in the original cast, and who was on What's My Line in 1958; he passed away in New York in 2000.

I was in England and watched this on TV when it was first broadcast - Dance Month, just imagine.... Dance Month BBC Two England, 31 May 1980 20.25 Synopsis Edit The London Festival Ballet in La Sylphide Choreographer PETER SCHAUFUSS after August Bournonville Music : HERMAN LOVENSKJOLD JOHN DRUMMOND introduces the opening production in BBC2's Dance Month 1980, which comes direct from the stage of the London Coliseum. Peter Schaufuss 's brilliant re-creation of the full-length romantic ballet won him the Evening Standard Ballet Award for 1979. Set in the glens of Scotland, the ballet tells the story of James, a young farmer, who loses his heart to a sylph and for her sake deserts his human bride-to-be on the eve of their wedding. The evil witch, Madge, traps James and his sylph with a magic scarf - and, for once, evil triumphs! Designer DAVID WALKER Lighting JOHN B. READ ORCHESTRA OF LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET conducted by TERENCE KERN Television lighting JOHN MASON Television sound GRAHAM HAINES Vision mixer GRAHAM GILES Director DEREK BAILEY t Contributors Music: Herman Lovenskjold Introduces: John Drummond Unknown: Peter Schaufuss Designer: David Walker James: Peter Schaufuss The Sylph: Eva Evdokimova Madge: Niels Bjorn Larsen Effie: Margot Clarke Gurn: Nicholas Johnson First Sylph: Andria Hall

Put.............the candle..............back!

The death of Gene Wilder is announced: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/movies/gene-wilder-dead.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=image&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

The death of Patrice Munsel is reported. She was 91. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/arts/music/patrice-munsel-dead.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=wide-thumb&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

I did come across this photo - and what a cast! http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8415064t/f3.image

Is there anyone who might be able to come up with a list of the pieces of Sleeping Beauty that comprise Nijinska's arrangement of Aurora's Wedding? (You know, numbers,etc.) All information greatly welcome!

On eBay there are a number of packets of Ballets Russes postcards for about 10 or so dollars. There's also an original Nijinsky in Les Sylphides postcard for about 230 dollars, to give you an idea!

Kaleria Fedicheva