A photo from 1923 reveals the large-scale ambition of ballet dancer/instructor Theodore Kosloff. [...]
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6 February 2012
23 September 2011 
arts·meme, ever protective of American dancers, has undertaken a preliminary investigation that gives rise to concern for David Hallberg’s very body posture. The danseur noble’s bold career move may literally be a step backward! [...] 21 September 2011 
How to know if or if not you are balletomane. Just look at a photo of David Hallberg. [...] 3 February 2011 “Diaghilev did not like the cameras. Indeed, strictly prohibiting the performance of his company were filmed, perhaps for fear that someone, without going to the theater, could see the breakthrough performances of his dancers.” [...] 16 November 2010 
A fun talk at Larry Edmund’s Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard celebrated the publishing of “Beautiful,” Stephen Shearer’s new Hedy Lamarr biography. The Austria-born actress was among the many German-speaking Jews who made their way to California in the 1930s. [...] 27 December 2009 
Describes Natacha Rambova’s costume design for the Aztec dance of Theodore Kosloff. [...] 18 October 2009 
On this modest strip, from 1909 to 1928, prospered a genial group of filmmakers who flocked to southern California to make moving pictures. Edendale wasn’t a random happening. At its height it was a beehive of integrated film activity. [...] 2 August 2009 In this coming Sunday’s Los Angeles Times Calendar section you will find my article about choreographer Jack Cole who coached Marilyn Monroe in movement over the course of six of her films. Most famously, he choreographed “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jack Cole also choreographed “Put the Blame on Mame” for Rita Hayworth in [...] 24 May 2009 
To create the dances for this glamorous posse, Diaghilev engaged five choreographers over the course of twenty years. This quintet now occupies a permanent spot in choreography heaven as classical ballet’s A-team: Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Bronslava Nijinska, and George Balanchine [...] 1 April 2009 
Was Theodore Kosloff a fine ballet instructor? Malcolm McCormick, co-author of the 20th century dance history book, “No Fixed Points,” says: “Kosloff was sending dancers to New York in the 1950s. They arrived strong and rigorously trained — they had been required to wear weights on their angles to develop strength.” [...] |
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eisenstadt,
gered mankowitz, photog, 1967
“the red danube” (1949)
