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She was director of Boston Ballet from 1980 to 1984.

Short documentary type film, just a handful of minutes, but also containing some film of Fonteyn being interviewed in French. http://fresques.ina.fr/en-scenes/liste/recherche/fonteyn/s#sort/-pertinence-/direction/DESC/page/1/size/10

Kirsten Simone in 1967 (at 31 minutes, 20 seconds) http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8790

Some scenes as i recall, lots of nice songs. Erik Bruhn is in the ballet if i recall.

lots of dancing in it

Turning Point?

Some of them are probably there because their mothers want little ballerinas and not because they love to dance!

I understand; I was responding really to this - Actually I started 6th grade at age 10; it can depend on your birthday when you start schooling (and I'm talking about when dinosaurs ruled the earth in my case).

As far as I know, for those who can afford it, some SAB students go to the Professional Children's School, which is very nearby and which is geared toward the education of performing children. It has a number of noted alumni. https://www.pcs-nyc.org/ "Professional Children's School provides a challenging academic education for young people in grades 6-12 pursuing extraordinary goals. Current students include ballet & modern dancers, actors, athletes, singers and models."

Just in addition, this film of the first act of Nutcracker, shot with an audience in 1967, is a little bit better quality than some of them, and I have ascertained that Drosselmeyer was indeed Anton Dolin here; he would have known Miss Page from as far back as 1925 or so, when she spent a short time with the Ballets Russes. Some of the sound is missing from the snow scene but it is otherwise ok. http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8767

My apologies for not posting the link correctly. If you go to this - http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/7339 you can watch the video.

Of interest also in this collection, which is now all on line - Segments from Ruth Page's Merry Widow featuring Alicia Markova and Oleg Briansky, shot by Ann Barzel, a dance critic, in the early or mid 1950s. This is the production in which Nureyev later danced with them. http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/7339[/media]

Do you mean Lensky's solo? must confess to only seeing this once, however.

I doubt it, I think that falls under the category of things people think they know.

there are those that think they are firsts, however, and though there have not been enough, i'll point one out from the fairly recent past, Debra Austin, a soloist at the New York City Ballet in the 70s, seen here in 1988 dancing la sylphide with the pennsylvania ballet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6RHgi6Sc98