abatt Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 The Postal Service will be issuing "Forever" stamps to honor Fosse, Duncan, Limon and Dunham. Read about it here: http://www.broadway.com/buzz/157358/legendary-choreographer-bob-fosse-to-be-honored-with-us-stamp/ I'll certainly have to pick up a few books of those stamps, though I rarely use "snail mail" anymore. Have there ever been stamps issued by the Post Office honoring other choreographers or dancers? Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 There was a set(?) of three, honoring deMille, Ailey and Balanchine. There was a Martha Graham one. This is a good page for history - not lots of dancers, though. http://usstampgallery.com/ Link to comment
Pamela Moberg Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Not being a stamp collector, I am probably not the right person to answer this, but it has been done in Scandinavia. Denmark, many years ago, issued a stamp with Margrethe Schanne, their legendary "La Sylphide" and Sweden issued one with ballerina Annelie Alhanko and her partner Per Arthur Segerström in "Giselle". Those I have actually kept and was once thinking of starting a ballet stamp collection, but it never got under way. In the former Soviet there were some ballet stamps as well. Link to comment
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