Mme. Hermine

No, this is Ruth Page's choreography, Quiggin. It premiered in 1965.

back at you, natalia!!! a hundredfold!!

Fun, isn't it? Actually this film comes from a two-year period after they had first opened at McCormick Place, after which it burned down and they spent 2 years at the Lyric Opera while it was being rebuilt. All of her films went to the Chicago Film Archives and they've diligently worked to digitize and catalog them. A fair number are on line on YT and the rest are on their website. It is her choreography save for the pas de deux of course! The dancers were dancers of her company supplemented by some guests.

Sugar Plum and Prince - Kirsten Simone and Henning Kronstam Flowers soloist - Dolores Lipinski Spanish soloist - Orrin Kayan Marzipan soloist - Anna Baker Chinese soloist - Larry Long Arabian soloists - Vicki Fisera and Charles Schick Russian soloist possibly John Landovsky

http://www.themarysue.com/embedding-video-copyright-infringement/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flava_Works_Inc._v._Gunter

i'll leave further discussion of this to the moderators etc.

No. I posted the video because I found it, but I am not the one who put it on youtube. if it disappears, it disappears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKauFBIFCU8&feature=youtu.be

posted here incorrectly; i've placed it into the original discussion of the film.

bless lucia wayne for what there is -

goodness, my 4000th post!

Courtesy of the Chicago Film Archive, a trio FF entitled Danse Brillante, filmed in rehearsal c1975 at the Chicago Ballet. The gentleman would appear so far to be the late Michael Bjerknes, well known to some at BalletAlert and known and loved of many in ballet. Very low sound, make it as high as you can. Music by Glinka, from Ruslan and Ludmila.

it might be worth mentioning that the female dancer in this film, which was taken some 35-40 years ago, was a student and not a company dancer.

the second mystery is for tomorrow !

hello all. i've posted a number of things about the enormous ruth page collection of films which the chicago film archive have been working very hard to correctly catalogue. i've been helping them with the things i can identify, as well as those dancers still in the area who worked with miss page. however there are a few mysteries, and i thought i would present two of them to you. this film is marked as 'nutcracker' and alice in wonderland. it is a dark rehearsal film. it is marked as having sound but for some reason i cannot hear it. there are two dancers rehearsing on a small stage. the first piece they dance is definitely nutcracker, but i can't identify the second. it suggested bournonville to me at the beginning at first, but looking at the whole thing i don't think so any longer. any suggestions? i'll answer whatever questions you have if i can. the second piece starts at about 11:50. http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/9200

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11997100/Yolanda-Sonnabend-theatrical-designer-obituary.html

ok, i know this isn't the real thing completely, and I know that lillian gish couldn't dance and that there are a lot of things that disqualify it from being a real presentation of the ballet, but i like this; I like the way it's presented, i like the perfume of the occasion, I like that she was always a good actress and she is still one here and i just like it! (did i say i like it?)

Well it's not the Times, but I found this paragraph in an article from the Brooklyn Eagle of April 19, 1944: Premiere of "Fancy Free" Acclaimed at the Met Jerome Robbins' ballet of three sailors on shore leave in New York City, rightfully called "Fancy Free," had its world premiere with the Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House last night. It scored a hit with the audience for the scenery of Oliver Smith, the youthful spirit of the performance, with Jerome Robbins setting the pace, and popular atmosphere of Leonard Bernstein's music conducted by the composer. Of it more can be said at a later date, but it's good news to know of the existence of another highly entertaining work.

http://triblive.com/obituaries/newsstories/9270056-74/falk-pittsburgh-gaffney#axzz3okyDKlIV

Spot on, Natalia! And the films in the box that were Lucia Wayne's were not only transferred long ago, they are already part of the library's collection, such as - The nutcracker pas de deux (ca. 9 min.) / choreography, Vasily Vainonen or Yuri Grigorovich ; danced by Nadezhda Pavlova and Vyacheslav Gordeyev of the Bolshoi Ballet. The films that are not ballet are most probably all the originals of Norman's few films of his own performing career (he had a nightclub sort of act with two ladies), which he had transferred and which were at least partially put on youtube. At least one of the shots that the OP posted is from one of them.

I don't know enough about him to say. He was an international performer in his own right, that may have something to do with it. And with things of that age, I wouldn't automatically assume that the box something is in is the one it belongs in.

Lucia Wayne worked at Lincoln Center as an usher and made a lot of illegal films by concealing her camera. This was in the 60s and 70s mostly. She has been dead now for quite a few years. Her films are part of the collection at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

Norman Crider was a friend of Lucia Wayne's and these are most probably original film from her collection, However they may be contained as transfers in the library already.