Lisa O`Brien Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Hello,I wonder if anyone on this forum can help me? I bought a lovely tutu off Ebay a while back that belonged to London Festival Ballet. The previous owner bought it herself off someone else,so didn`t know anything about it. I managed to make out the name inside the costume which was Devine. After searching Google,I discovered there was a dancer at LFB called Jane Devine who was a soloist in the mid eighties. I tracked her down to a ballet school where she now teaches [can`t remember if it`s Australia or South Africa] and emailed them,sending photos of the attached costume,but sadly,they never replied. I sent them the same email again a few months later,and the same thing. Perhaps my email was sent into their spam folder,I don`t know. I have now posted a You Tube video,called London Festival Ballet Tutu Help. It was only added yesterday,and only has 8 views so far. However,I`m hoping that somebody out there will be able to identify the ballet this tutu belonged to,and perhaps,even the role danced. If people reading this would care to take the time to look at my video on You Tube,and perhaps someone out there will be able to identify which ballet the costume belonged to, that would be great. It has me stumped!! Many thanks,Lisa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingerbread Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 I'm afraid I can't help you but just wanted to post to say that I looked at the YouTube video and wow what a pretty tutu! Wish I could find something like that on Ebay for £60! good luck with your search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlala Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 London Festival Ballet archives are maintained by ENB. A google search suggests their archivist is J Pritchard. Why not send them a link to your YouTube post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 TQ, I would repost this in the "Performances seen and general discussions" section of the forum. There are people who have been watching ENB/LFB for a long time and may know something about Ms Devine. Lucky (clever) you to have such a pretty tutu. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 15, 2013 Author Share Posted February 15, 2013 Thanks.Does anyone [moderators,please??] know how I repost this in the "Performances Seen" section without having to re-type out the whole thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 You can't. I can (is there a "smug grin" smiley ?) And I'm sure nobody would mind if you wanted to post the YT link here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Thanks,Alison,But I don`t know HOW to post the You Tube link here.[bit of a technology dinosaur.Well,a LOT of a technology dinosaur.!!!] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Just cut and paste the URL into the Reply box as you would with anything else. The site will do the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 www.youtube.com/embed/cL4IgdGNo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Sorry,I haven`t a clue.Will have to ask my son for help. Or people can see the video showing it on YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Will this help?: Edited to add: Once you have the Reply toolbar icons showing, you'll find one slightly left of centre with a chainlink and a small plus sign. (Hover over it and 'Link' should appear.) You need to press that icon symbol, when a small window will appear, containing a space into which your copied URL should be pasted, followed by pressing 'OK.' Your Link should then appear in the Reply space in blue and, if it does, go ahead and 'Post' and that should be that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanprincess Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 wow, that is Gorgeous!!! (Sorry i couldnt be of more help though!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Sorry,I haven`t a clue.Will have to ask my son for help. Or people can see the video showing it on YouTube. You needed the whole URL, including the http bit at the beginning, that was all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 16, 2013 Author Share Posted February 16, 2013 Yay,Thank you so much,Ian.You`re a star. [Told you I was a tecno dinosaur.!!] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliedesigns Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Hi There is a classical tutu maker called Devine Tutus could be there Label Julie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Welome to the Forum Juliedesigns. Thanks for posting 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 18, 2013 Author Share Posted February 18, 2013 Thanks for the info,Juliedesigns,and welcome to the forum from me, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irmgard Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Very interesting post! I remember Jane Devine very well. She now teaches in Australia and is a friend of several friends of mine so I will see if any of them remembers the tutu. It does look familiar but I couldn't say for certain which ballet it is from. If I can find out anything for you, I will post. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 Beautiful tutu! Hope you find out the history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irmgard Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 I've heard back from my friend in Australia who contacted Jane Devine. They both think the tutu is from "Verdi Variations" which was a one-act divertissement by Andre Prokovsky. I only saw the piece a few times but it was a purely classical work danced to ballet music from Verdi's operas. Hope this information helps. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 25, 2013 Author Share Posted February 25, 2013 Thank you so,so much,Irmgard.!! I contacted Jane Devine on her Facebook page last week,but maybe she never checks her messages. Gosh,never heard of "Verdi Variations". Must have a look for an old theatre programme of it. Thank you so much,once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irmgard Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Glad to be of help. I've rummaged through my old programmes but sadly, because I had so many, I threw a lot of them away and only kept the cast lists. Looks like I saw Verdi Variations in 1981 and 1982 and I don't think it was kept in the repertoire after that. With regard to Facebook, if you are not a signed-up 'friend' of the person, sometimes your message can be relegated to the file marked 'other' and not everyone knows to check that for random messages. Anyway, Jane was pleased to answer your question via my friend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted February 25, 2013 Author Share Posted February 25, 2013 How lovely. I`ve added that the mystery has been solved to the you tube page for people to read. But think i`ll keep the YT page up though.It might be interesting for people to see,I don`t know.!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Well done on finding out the ballet - how fab is that - the power of t'internet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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