Ballet
girls
The American
Ballet
Trains
for the Metropolitan Opera
Life magazine December 1936
Θεάματα
These ballet
girls, shown in another pose on the front cover of this issue of Life, are part of the American Ballet
corps which will serve as dancers in Metropolitan Opera productions this season.
The
American Ballet
Trains for the Metropolitan Opera
Most
difficult dance form is the ballet, best taught in this country by the School
of the American Ballet in New York. Founded in 1933 by Lincoln Kirstein and
Edward Warburg, it feeds its crack pupils into a producing unit called Ballet
Productions, Inc.
This season
it is again supplying the ballet corps for the Metropolitan Opera Co. Under the
aegis of Balletmaster and Choreographer George
Balanchine, the 35 dancers in this group perform all the ballets on the
Met’s schedule with refreshing grace and sprightliness. No amateur hobby,
ballet dancing is a hard, steady, painstaking job, requiring five years of
training in the prime of youth to attain a properly professional degree of skill.
These ballet
dancers, costumed for Mozart pieces arranged by Tchaikovsky, are listening to
the music before starting to rehearse.
William
Dollar, the American
Ballet’s star male dancer, rehearses at the bar with Annabelle Lyon, former Fokine
pupil.
Wardrobe
mistress of the American Ballet is Maria Stepanova, once seamstress to Nijinsk.
cover photo
Life
magazine, December 28, 1936
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Ballet girls
The
American Ballet
Trains for the Metropolitan Opera
Life
magazine December 1936
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