rg Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 this is a scan of a rehearsal for a ballet from the past century: can you identify the dancers? the ballet? anything else? Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 a shot in the proverbial dark..she looks a little like Marie-Jeanne? Link to comment
Dale Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 Yvonne Chouteau and Eglevsky? Link to comment
Paul Parish Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 me too, think she looks liuke Marie-Jeanne -- esp the way she's using her eyes, and the long feet. Beautiful line, arms and leg -- Crossed wrists -- hmmmmmm. Ballet Imperial? Link to comment
rg Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 mid-point check-in: it's not marie-jeanne, whose long feet are even longer than those of this dancer. Link to comment
atm711 Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Chouteau and Oleg Tupine?---Lifar's Romeo & Juliet?--- Link to comment
rg Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 the ROMEO & JULIET guess by atm711 above correctly identifies the work being rehearsed but the dancers so far suggested and the choreographer have yet to be named. Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 denmark? ashton? Link to comment
rg Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 no, and no, to the above suggestions. Link to comment
Paul Parish Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Mona Vangsaae and Henning Kronstam in Ashton's? He does look noble enough and big enough, to be Kronstam, and her coloring and proportions are right.... golly rg you've got me going.... Link to comment
rg Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 'no' to the suggestions presented in the two posts before this one. Link to comment
bart Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Hugh Laing in the Tudor, with someone other than Markova? Link to comment
rg Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 i'll post what i know about this photo, which arrived with minimal captioning a while back, by day's end. for now, no, alas, to the two most recent guesses. Link to comment
Dale Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 I'm holding firm with Chouteau and Eglevsky. I'll make a guess that they are performing Romeo and Juliet (by some choreographer), but from the kneeling support provided by the man, I'll also suggest Balanchine's Minkus pas de trois. Link to comment
rg Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 as i meant to note, no one has guessed either dancer's name. All the names suggested so far are incorrect. Link to comment
Dale Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 OK, then I'll switch to Zorina and George Zoritch. Link to comment
bart Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 If it's Zorina (and R&J), could the man be William Dollar and the choreographer Balanchine? Link to comment
rg Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 in sum: THE ROMEO AND JULIET BALLET from GOLDWYN FOLLIES, choreography by George Balanchine. Juliet - Vera Zorina Romeo - William Dollar (this pose is almost all there in the final cut, tho' the crossed wrists that Paul is so taken with, as am i, aren't quite in place in the way it's been caught in this 1937? rehearsal photo.) Link to comment
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