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The Critics of the Russian Ballet (Vanity Fair, 1916)Man of letters and all-around swell-guy Frank Moore Colby (1865 - 1925) had a good time reading the flowery writing of the Ballet Connoisseurs who write for the New York papers...
Ruth St. Denis in California (Vanity Fair, 1915)Three photos and a few well-chosen words concerning Ruth St. Denis' dance school in the wilds of California. Isadora Duncan in Rye (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1915)Here is a paragraph about the school of dance that was maintained by Isadora Duncan in Rye, New York; the notice is illustrated by three stunning photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 – 1952) depicting thirteen young girls in Grecian attire. •Watch This Rare Film Footage of Isadora Duncan• A Profile of Isadora Duncan (Vanity Fair, 1915)Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), said to be the birth mother of Modern Dance, is profiled in the attached VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE article written by Arthur Hazlitt Perry: "She is truly a remarkable woman. She never dances, acts, dresses, or thinks like anybody else. She is essentially the child of another age, a Twentieth Century exponent of a by-gone civilization. She missed her cue to come on, by twenty-three hundred years." College Instruction in Modern Dance (The Literary Digest, 1933) Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine (Delineator Magazine, 1935)Attached is one of the first articles to be written about "balletomanes" Lincoln Kirstein (1907 - 1996) and his efforts with George Balanchine (1904 – 1983) and philanthropist Edward M.M. Warburg (1910 - 1992) to form the first American ballet company (the corps was later called the New York City Ballet).
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