Dancing Past The Light – Orel Protopopescu

The two women wore feathered headdresses, chokers, and short, dark, ruffled tutus that matched their bodices. Briefly, Eglevsky crouched behind them as they crossed the stage. He walked with comically bent legs while holding onto their skirts, a balletic Groucho Marx. That was a gesture that Balanchine may have gotten from Ruthanna Boris, who had one of the Ends in Cakewalk dancing a bent-over series of steps, while clutching the tail of the other’s coat.

Le Clercq and Adams took turns performing combinations—fouettées, entrechats, and pirouettes—each one pausing to watch the other, as if showing off or trying to match each other. They did a complicated series of attitudes (like arabesques, but with the raised leg bent), swayed from side to side, and stirred the air with one free foot spiraling in corkscrew fashion, all the while maintaining balance on pointe. Diana kept a solemn face throughout, even when, with one leg way up to one side, she was finally carried offstage by Eglevsky.

When he returned and lifted Tanny in the identical grand battement à la seconde position, her leg as high as a leg to the side could possibly go, she managed, just before he carried her off, to take a few seconds to pantomime powdering her nose and waving at the audience with prissy flickers of her wrists.

The critics were moderately enthusiastic, although a British reviewer noted that “the choreographer performed the considerable feat of making three top ranking artists . . . look ridiculous. Karinska’s costumes for the girls were delicious.”50 The wedding had a far greater impact than the ballet. The ceremony was secular, performed by a friend of Tanny’s family, a Long Island justice of the peace.

Only Edith Le Clercq and Natasha Molostwoff attended. Balanchine had picked the date, his bride said, “so we’d start the New Year married.” (He may have been advised by an accountant that he could write her off on his 1952 taxes, too.)

Florida A&M University, Tallahassee Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers Florida International University, Miami Florida State University, Tallahassee New College of Florida, Sarasota University of Central Florida, Orlando University of Florida, Gainesville University of North Florida, Jacksonville University of South Florida, Tampa University of West Florida, Pensacola OceanofPDF.com Dancing Past the Light THE LIFE OF TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ OREL PROTOPOPESCU UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA Gainesville / Tallahassee / Tampa / Boca Raton Pensacola / Orlando / Miami / Jacksonville / Ft.

Myers / Sarasota OceanofPDF.com BALANCHINE is a Trademark of The George Balanchine Trust. Writings by Lincoln Kirstein are © 2021 by the New York Public Library (Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Copyright 2021 by Orel Protopopescu All rights reserved Published in the United States of America 26 25 24 23 22 21 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 978-0-8130-6902-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2021930611 The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University System of Florida, comprising Florida A&M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida International University, Florida State University, New College of Florida, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida.

University Press of Florida 2046 NE Waldo Road Suite 2100 Gainesville, FL 32609 http://upress.ufl.edu OceanofPDF.com To my husband and best friend, Șerban, for his unconditional love for me, our daughters and grandchildren, his careful readings of my drafts, and his patience throughout the four years that I was steeped in this project And in memory of the celebrated New York City Ballet principal dancer, Jacques d’Amboise (1934–2021), Le Clercq’s dance partner and friend, whose generous, ebullient spirit has guided my work since the day we met at his National Dance Institute in Harlem, NYC, in June 2018 OceanofPDF.com Contents PREFACE 1.

Her Last Tour 2. Starting Out “Like a Real Ballerina . . .” 3. Two Paths Converge 4. A “Coltish” Muse 5. The Ballet Society Years 6. Birth of the New York City Ballet 7. Summer in Europe 8. A “Balanchine Ballerina” 9. Between Balanchine and Robbins, La Valse and The Cage 10.

Cakewalk and Convalescence 11. A Reluctant Swan and a Dragonfly 12. Afternoon of a Faun 13. A Dewdrop and a Dance Hall Girl 14. “The Royal Family” on Tour 15.

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