victoriapage

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

Can I just momentarily hijack this thread and ask how much ballet there is in "Hans Christian Andersen", which I see is being shown on BBC2 early on Saturday morning?

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).

Even their full time programme provides no academic provision, students have to homeschool online which wouldn't be possible in the UK with the different structure of our Gcse exams. 

 

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 did know that they would push people into splits but it was the bit about breaking their legs and snapping them into place that I didn't believe. Please don't tell me they snap people's legs!

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

Just an idea – I have seen a lot of posts on Facebook lately about Misty Copeland breaking barriers (African-American, started ballet at 13, from a poor family). Also, Michaela DePrince, from the doco 'First Position' is an inspiring dancer from a traumatic start (war orphan adopted from Sierra Leone, has vitiligo, also black). I know these are American examples, but in terms of stereotypes they are revolutionary in the dance world!

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

I don't know if this would suit, but if you are speaking of misconceptions, how about those who think pointe shoes are made of wood?

I've also heard someone ask a working professional dancer, "But what do you do for a living?"

Here's another from the competition in Jackson, Mississippi in 1986:

You may enjoy this!

I don't see anything about it on their site?

http://www.charliechaplin.com/en/biography/articles/26-Chaplin-Music

Music played an important part in the Karno comedy sketches, which achieved, for example, effective comic contrast by accompanying gross slapstick with delicate 18th century melodies. Stan Laurel, a fellow Karno performer, recalled in an interview with John McCabe that during the 1912 US tour Charlie:

“Carried his violin wherever he could. Had the strings reversed so he could play left handed, and he would practise for hours. He bought a cello once and used to carry it around with him. At these times he would always dress like a musician, a long fawn coloured overcoat with green velvet cuffs and collar and a slouch hat. And he’d let his hair grow long at the back. We never knew what he was going to do next.”

Chaplin himself recalled that:

“On this tour I carried my violin and cello. Since the age of sixteen I had practised from four to six hours a day in my bedroom. Each week I took lessons from the theatre conductor or from someone he recommended. As I played left handed, my violin was strung left handed with the bass bar and sounding post reversed. I had great ambitions to be a concert artist, or, failing that, to use it in a vaudeville act, but as time went on I realised that I could never achieve excellence, so I gave it up.”

 

Mod(s), please feel free to rearrange, relocate, make disappear as appropriate.

The same Youtuber has posted other bits as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4W_Cll740Q

She was an extraordinary woman who took barre long into her 80s. When the attacks she refers to happened, she absolutely refused to be discouraged. I was a student in the school she owned. The film of her in Dance Macabre shows her dancing with Adolph Bolm, and she danced for both Pavlova and Diaghilev.  She really was an inspiration!

Albeit for a much older lady, however thought it was a good one: