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The Balanchine Foundation has the Resurgence date as January 22, 1946: http://balanchine.org/balanchine/display_result.jsp?num=231

FYI: I'm on the lookout for a decent hi-res digital image of a Balanchine/NYCB portrait shot that appears in the American Masters Balanchine documentary (photographer not known to me). Le Clercq is wearing her La Valse "black" costume (except with the white opera gloves), and Tallchief is on the other side of Mr. B (not sure of her costume's origins):

Thanks Quiggin - it is interesting to hear from Tony Penrose, who grew up not particularly liking his eccentric, and mostly drunken mother, but later was able to learn something of the other facets of her life and personality. Supposedly, it was Miller's reportage of Dachau concentration camp that pushed her into chronic alcoholism and seemed to rob her of her creative instincts. That is the theory at any rate. It's not something she ever wrote about. I do wonder how Tanny and Mary E. Allen came onto the subject of Lee Miller.

RG, I just wanted to mention that I ran into these images of the letter and envelope that accompanied Tanny's La Valse publicity shot shown earlier in the thread: Pretty interesting! Love the mention of Lee (Miller) Penrose, whose biography I recently read. From the website of Thomas Oboe Lee: http://home.comcast.net/~thomas.o.lee/autographs.html

John Martin in 1950 characterizes the Rimbaud of the ballet as a Only 10 curtain calls? It's a shame it all went over so poorly. ;) Any ballet that can create characters of such depth ("dark, turbulent, self-tortured, subcutaneously evil and unrelenting creature, for whom one felt, an almost protective warmth and sympathy") is worth a trip to the theater.

I'm not certain if this documentary has been linked to before, but here goes - Aurelie Dupont - L'espace d' un Instant (no subtitles) Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGYwg5WI15A&list=PL91CF3F9220C4CAD5 Note: there are some glitches in the video Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_0Hv1VeKy4 Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgSISXmfh9Y Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4b5lVOi75M

I see - makes sense that some of these items were dispersed after an estate sale. It must have been a great collection. Publicity photos like the ones above used to be commonplace, but these days, it's next to impossible to find any such thing (unless in Russia). The digital age hasn't really helped out the fans in that respect - we may see lots of digital snapshots, but we don't have the rights to them, and most aren't of printable quality, if one happened to have access to a quality digital printer in the first place.

Great find, RG. "Mary Ellen Moylan"? Ha! Perhaps not, but one of my favorite Tanny portraits (in her La Valse costume) has the same dedication written on it:

And a great line it is. ;) The ballet's visuals do fit well with that evocative statement.

Having 'grown up' on Rimbaud and Baudelaire poems, I'm definitely interested in seeing Illuminations. The question is, can any present day company do the work justice? It sounds to me like there's been a creative gap of 20 to 30 years with almost no performances (except by the Joffrey). Kind of hard to imagine anyone picking up the thread with the same level of creative energy, and all details in place.

`Nancy Reynolds -- and Lincoln Kirstein -- write so much about Illuminations, which I've never seen.. I wish I could have made it to the 1967 revival, with Mimi Paul in LeClercq's role, Nina Fedorova danced it too. Thanks for this information on Illuminations, Bart - I too am fascinated by these images. I wasn't familiar with this particular ballet, but love the crazy Ballet Russes/Modernist look of the costumes. The La Valse publicity shot is one of the better ones I've seen. There was a series of these done involving Tanny and Francisco Moncion, but I can't seem to find 'the whole ball of wax', and in high-resolution. I'd like to do an illustration or watercolor painting based on one of these La Valse images in the future. Now that I've seen a number of signed photos, I know that officially, Tanny spelled her last name, "Le Clercq" (with a space). I think her family/relations have since dropped the space between the two words.

I posted a link to the Perry Ballet Collection photos in the video and photos forum, but I thought these gems should be shown here (downloadable too!) - http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/search/collection/LIB-MUS010/searchterm/New!Ballet!Tanaquil%20Le%20Clercq/field/all!all!all/mode/any!all!all/conn/and!and!and/order/nosort/ad/asc

http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/search/collection/LIB-MUS010/searchterm/New!Ballet/field/all!all/mode/any!all/conn/and!and/order/nosort/ad/asc The individual photo pages contain download links, which is very thoughtful. Be warned that some of the images are TIF files which cannot be viewed in a browser, but rather with an image program like Adobe Photoshop, or Windows Photo Viewer (I think the Mac's image viewer will do the same).

I posted this link in the Tanaquil Le Clercq thread (under Dancers), which gives a smidgen of info about the project: http://derekbritt.com/?portfolio=afternoon-of-a-faun

I'm not certain if this video has been linked to before, but in case anyone is interested: http://vimeo.com/12220867

Just a few more. ;) Concerto Barocco. Tanaquil Le Clercq, Diana Adams http://24.media.tumb...2lkvo1_1280.jpg George Balanchine, Tanaquil LeClercq, and Truman Capote http://www.corbisima...d-truman-capote At rehearsals http://www.corbisima...cq-at-rehearsal In her apartment http://www.corbisima...n-her-apartment Apollo at New York City Ballet with Andre Eglevsky with Diana Adams, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil LeClercq. Photo by George Platt Lynes http://mariakucinski...10/imag0742.jpg Getty has some 'at-home' photos: http://www.gettyimag...aquil Le clercq > Search on 'George Balanchine' on the Getty site and you'll see some interesting publicity photos (there's a bunch of Harlequinade and early Apollo images for example). Here's one of the famous images: http://www.gettyimag...-photo/89043422 That's all for now.

You're very welcome - I do periodic searches on the Internet for images, and Tanny is one of the persons I've been most interested in finding decent photos of. It pays to do searches periodically since the availability of images changes. Someone on eBay just spent a lot of money on an original photo of Tanny and Jerome Robbins together, and if you scroll down on this page you can see an image of the photo - pretty great stuff: http://www.ebay.com/itm/JEROME-ROBBINS-TANAQUIL-LECLERCQ-Ballerina-NYC-Ballet-Dancers-ORIGINAL-PHOTO-/370664929337?viewitem=&nma=true&si=FeWnSYFwe6lmn5G3P8t3rgrb%252FDM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Really great find, Jack - I was so hoping that I was going to run into the same type of film of La Valse, on the Web, but not yet. ;)

Yes, a documentary is pretty exciting - there's some chance that there is going to be more film footage of Tanny dancing! There is footage in the archives, but it never seems to see the light of day. Here are a few more large images - Tanaquil Le Clercq and Jerome Robbins in "Bourée Fantastique" http://www.metmuseum...os=7#fullscreen Metamorphoses http://pinterest.com...54808791401365/ Jones Beach publicity photo http://www.metmuseum...os=8#fullscreen Article with some small photos http://www.capitalne...d-times-and-aft http://www.gettyimag...photo/124511753 http://www.gettyimag...photo/124035307 http://farm4.staticf...513fafc31_z.jpg Oh, and evidence of hidden treasures: http://www.worldcat.org/title/valse/oclc/438155528

Some images of Tanny: http://pinterest.com...aquil-leclercq/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/7158635@N05/4974529445/in/faves-20571123@N00/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/modernmonk/383227345/in/faves-20571123@N00/ http://imagecache5d....g?ch=894&cw=670 http://www.flickr.com/photos/42399206@N03/5449623700/in/faves-20571123@N00/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/7158635@N05/4974529447/in/faves-20571123@N00/ http://oregonballett...yludlow0027.jpg Documentary in the works: http://derekbritt.co...rnoon-of-a-faun

A truly bizarre, and awful incident. I suppose no one knows at this point if this was some kind of personal dispute, or vaguely political protest, or?

The performance lineup for SF Ballet's Gala has just been released - and there's apparently a lot to be seen. San Francisco Ballet Opening Night Gala: Moving the Compass Thursday, January 24, 2013 "SF Ballet fans won't want to miss this spectacular performance, featuring a thrilling line-up of short, crowd-pleasing works including the Act 3 pas de deux from Don Quixote and the pas de deux from After the Rain. See the full line-up." Tarantella Composer: Louis Gottschalk Choreography: George Balanchine final solo from L’Arlésienne Composer: Georges Bizet Choreography: Roland Petit The Flower Festival at Genzano Pas de Deux Composer: Matthias Strebinger, adapted by Holger Simon Paulli Choreography: August Bournonville In the Passarine's Church Composer Wojceich Kilar Choreography Myles Thatcher Raymonda’s solo from Raymonda Act III Composer Alexander Glazunov Choreography Rudolph Nureyev after Marius Petipa 2nd movement from Trio Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreographer Helgi Tomasson grand pas de deux from Don Quixote, Act III Composer Ludwig Minkus and Riccardo Drigo Choreography after Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky INTERMISSION pas de deux from Onegin, Act I Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Arrangement and Orchestration Kurt-Heinz Stolze Choreography John Cranko pas de deux from Stars and Stripes Composer: John Philip Sousa Adapted and orchestrated by Hershy Kay Choreography: George Balanchine pas de deux from After the Rain Composer: Arvo Pärt Choreography: © Christopher Wheeldon excerpts from Suite en Blanc Composer: Édouard Lalo Choreography: Serge Lifar

Very nice, and very different from the SF Ballet version (that I'm used to). Thanks for sharing, Lion. It's a shame the video is seemingly full of dropped frames. I'm not sure what could be causing so much jerkiness, unless it's a bad conversion to another video format.

I believe no one has mentioned Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago - to me an extraordinary novel, and one I've enjoyed as much as Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Brothers Karamazov, and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

Today's update from SF Ballet: "Once again Bay Area audiences warmly embraced SF Ballet’s Nutcracker, with nearly 95,000 fans flocking to the Opera House during the three-week run. Thanks to all our loyal fans who voted SF Ballet to a resounding victory in Ovation Network’s “Battle of the Nutcrackers” as well as everyone who participated in our 'Nutcracker Challenge.' Learn more about the history of SF Ballet’s production of Nutcracker in this ."

This video of the Perm Opera and Ballet company features sections from Mr. B's Monumentum Pro Gesualdo and Kammermusik No. 2. The first piece, "Variations on a Rococo Theme", I'm not familiar with. Is this Wheeldon's ballet? Doesn't really look like Wheeldon. Donizetti Variations, Pas de deux: Bugaku (generous) preview from MCB: La Sonnambula - Mikhail Baryshnikov & Alessandra Ferri: