By Robert Greskovic Part three in our series featuring the personal photo card collection of our New York correspondent After the October Revolution of 1917, the imperial ballet world’s schools and theatres were renamed by the new Bolshevik government as state theatres and state academies. Once ballet troupes began to come out of Soviet Russia
By Robert Greskovic Featuring three more photo cards from Robert Greskovic’s personal collection. Part one is available here. The card below shows Marie Petipa and Sergei Legat in the Pas Hongrois czardas from the Act 2 ballroom scene of Swan Lake by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. The photo must have been taken after the
By David Mead Taiwan has never been short of female choreographers. Dance was historically made by women, who often led their own companies, too. The country did not face the issue of lack of female opportunities found in many other parts of the world, issues that now are quite rightly a hot topic for debate.