Lovebird Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 I am shamelessly copying Marga's thread, but I thought it would be interesting . Now, if there seems to be few blonde ballerinas, I'd say there is even less red- haired ballerinas! Being rather ginger-haired myself , I would like to know, have there been ANY red haired ballerinas? Besides Moira Shearer, of course :grinning: . I think Moira Shearer's fame, both in movies and ballet, was partly based on her ragingly red hair. Even in everyday life redheads are very scarce. So, any red haired ballet dancers you can think of? Link to comment
Helene Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Maria Calegari has a head of gorgeous red hair. Link to comment
Alexandra Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Sorella Englund (Royal Danish Ballet) Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Fanny Elssler fills the bill in both red and blonde. She was a strawberry blonde. Link to comment
perky Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Maia Plisetskaia, the most fiery redhead of all. Link to comment
Watermill Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 PNB's stunning Stacy Lowenberg, a corps member who has danced soloist roles, is the Northwest's Victoria Page. Had the edgy hard rockin' AD James Canfield not left OBT, I'm sure I would also have been able to supply you with a list of dancers with orange, blue and purple tresses. Now we're stuck with this fuddy-duddy Stowell and his boring classicism. With a wink, Watermill Link to comment
its the mom Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Larissa Ponomarenko of Boston Ballet - somewhere between blonde and red Link to comment
Marga Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Nothing wrong with one idea leading to another, Lovebird! The thought came to me, too, especially while watching the Mayerling which sparked my blond(e) thread idea. With flaming Lucille Ball-hair, Leslie Collier of the Royal Ballet made a striking statement in that video. Was she always a redhead? Link to comment
Marga Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 And, of course, there's Carol Sumner of the NYCB. In I Remember Balanchine she recalls that "Balanchine said I looked like Danny Kaye." Link to comment
kfw Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Bonnie Pickard, with Suzanne Farrell Ballet and a group in Dayton whose name escapes me. Link to comment
Old Fashioned Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Heather Hamilton who dances with Complexions. I'm not sure if she would be considered a classical dancer, though... Link to comment
Juliette Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Very interesting; as I'm also red-haired, I often wondered the same thing. In POB, Elizabeth Maurin (Etoile) is a kind of red-haired (she is, but has changed her hair color sometimes) and Fanny Fiat, still a sujet but a really promising ballerina, is also red-haired. Link to comment
Estelle Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Juliette, I wonder if Fanny Fiat's red hair is natural (in some old videos of the POB school, her hair looks blond). Also there used to be Peggy Grelat, who left for the Frankfurt Ballet a few years ago. Link to comment
carbro Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Well, not sure if I would characterize Gillian Murphy or Carol Sumner as redheads, but if they are, then so, too, is Pascale van Kipnis. Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 It's a good thing Richard Marsden and Linda Merrill (Rosenthal) weren't in the company at the same time. People would have been mistaking them for brother and sister, with the fire-engine hair! Link to comment
Juliette Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Estelle, I really think Fanny Fiat is red (I saw her after a performance and it was evident it was her natural hair color), but I know that sometimes in video or on stage hair color is a bit different (with lights...). Link to comment
dirac Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 I think Katita Waldo of SFB also qualifies. Moira Shearer certainly created a striking visual image with that red head, especially in the almost cartoonishly vivid Technicolor of the Forties and Fifties, but her fame wasn't based upon her hair, although that and The Red Shoes are probably the first things that spring to mind when her name is mentioned. In Striking a Balance, she told Barbara Newman that critics often singled her out for her coloring because they felt it wasn't right for certain parts. I also remember a passage from "Secret Muses" by Julie Kavanagh, in which it's noted that certain company members were wont to refer to Shearer's Cinderella as "Gingerella." Link to comment
Cygnet Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Nothing wrong with one idea leading to another, Lovebird! The thought came to me, too, especially while watching the Mayerling which sparked my blond(e) thread idea. With flaming Lucille Ball-hair, Leslie Collier of the Royal Ballet made a striking statement in that video. Was she always a redhead? Lesley Collier is a brunette. Elvira Tarasova of the Kirov has auburn hair, and so did Dame Merle Park. Link to comment
tigger Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 Julie Hay, second soloist with national ballet of canada (AND she's tall, too!) http://www.national.ballet.ca/InsideTheCom...owBio/julie_hay Link to comment
glebb Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 I think Ghislaine Thesmar, the reincarnation of Taglioni at the Paris Opera, is a red head. She by the way was very nice in 'Emeralds' at NYCB. Link to comment
Lovebird Posted March 15, 2004 Author Share Posted March 15, 2004 I don't think Thesmar, Sumner, or Pascal are red haired in the way that I mean, they are more strawberry blonde, very different from the carrot, tomato, flame color that Shearer or Fiat have. Also, hair does look different when it's in a bun, it tends to look darker. Wasn't Guillem red-haired? Hold it, Natalia Sologub from the Kirov has really red hair, it really stands out on stage, thats the red I'm talking about. Link to comment
Hans Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 I'm pretty sure Sylvie Guillem does not have red hair, although it does look kind of reddish in the video of Manon. Perhaps it was that sort of maroonish dye job that used to be so fashionable in Europe? Link to comment
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