Left to right: Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara, Lydia Rubtsova as Marianna and Vassily Stukolkin as Fritz, in the original production of The Nutcracker. Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1892.
Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ballerinas in Rehearsal for Swan Lake, Paris, 1930.
Sylvie Guillem as a student at the Paris Opera Ballet School
Sylvie Guillem as a student at the Paris Opera Ballet School
Willie Berman’s class at Steps on Broadway (Wendy Whelan!)
American Ballet Theater, Susan Jaffe
Vaganova Academy
And because I am obsessed with Zelda Fitzgerald, here is a photo of Ballets Russes’ 1927 performance of “La Chatte”, which is the ballet that Zelda mentions in Save Me The Waltz as having inspired her to take ballet class...
“I have been to the Russian ballet,” Alabama tried to explain herself, “and it seemed to me—Oh, I don’t know! As if it held all the things I’ve always tried to find in everything else.”
“What have you seen?”
“La Chatte, Madame, I must do that some day!”
And because I am obsessed with Zelda Fitzgerald, here is a photo of Ballets Russes’ 1927 performance of “La Chatte”, which is the ballet that Zelda mentions in Save Me The Waltz as having inspired her to take ballet class...
“I have been to the Russian ballet,” Alabama tried to explain herself, “and it seemed to me—Oh, I don’t know! As if it held all the things I’ve always tried to find in everything else.”
“What have you seen?”
“La Chatte, Madame, I must do that some day!”
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