Describes Natacha Rambova’s costume design for the Aztec dance of Theodore Kosloff. [...]
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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 Gilda, [...] 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.” [...] 5 March 2009
Adrian designed the costume actress Kay Johnson wears in the zeppelin sequence of Cecil B. DeMille’s Madam Satan. Ballets Russes dancer Theodore Kosloff is in the film. Kay Johnson was actor James Cromwell’s mother. [...] |
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