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[Dancers]
- Title
- [Dancers] [graphic] / Ruegg.
- Author
- Ruegg.
- Publication
- [194-?]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stuart, Muriel, 1900-1991.
- Description
- 4 drawings : conté crayon, graphite, watercolor, crayon, b&w or color; 31 x 23 cm.
- Summary
- Four sheets of action drawings, some containing multiple figures. Two b&w drawings each depict a single ballet dancer costumed in a tutu. One sheet of drawings portrays eight female figures in different poses and colors; with the exception of the central figure, who wears green heeled shoes, all appear to be ballet dancers. A detail of legs and feet is penciled at right. One sheet contains four figures, either representing four different dancers or multiple views of a single dancer, in a character dance costume, possibly Spanish or Latin American: a full-sleeved white blouse, red and purple skirt, and red heeled shoes, with a red flower in her hair. The figure at upper right appears to hold castanets in her upraised hand.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Drawings.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Signed. The artist's first name has not been identified.
- The name Muriel Stuart is lightly penciled at lower right on the three drawings of ballet dancers. Another name appears to be written on the drawing of character dancers, but it is too faint to be legible.
- Biography (note)
- Muriel Stuart may have been the subject and/or donor of these drawings. Born in London, she was chosen as a child to be trained in ballet by the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, and danced with Pavlova's company from 1916 to 1926. She spent most of her life as a ballet teacher, notably at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet in New York City, which she joined in 1935. In 1952 she and Lincoln Kirstein published The classic ballet: basic technique and terminology, still regarded as a definitive text.
- Call Number
- *MGZGD Rue Dan 1-4
- OCLC
- 824777117
- Author
- Ruegg.
- Title
- [Dancers] [graphic] / Ruegg.
- Imprint
- [194-?]
- Biography
- Muriel Stuart may have been the subject and/or donor of these drawings. Born in London, she was chosen as a child to be trained in ballet by the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, and danced with Pavlova's company from 1916 to 1926. She spent most of her life as a ballet teacher, notably at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet in New York City, which she joined in 1935. In 1952 she and Lincoln Kirstein published The classic ballet: basic technique and terminology, still regarded as a definitive text.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Added Author
- Stuart, Muriel, 1900-1991. Associated name
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGD Rue Dan 1-4