Mia Slavenska in Giselle, ca. 1948-1949 [picture] / Constantine
- Bib ID:
- 3426906
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Constantine
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- between 1948 and 1949
- 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; 25.9 x 20.3 cm.
- Series:
- Valrene Tweedie collection of dance photographs from the Ballets Russes.
- Biography/History:
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Slavenska was born in 1914 in Yugoslavia. She studied in Zagreb with Josephine Weiss, then in Vienna with Leo Dubois. When she moved to Paris she continued her studies with Lubov Egorova, Mathilda Kschessinska and Olga Preobrajenska. She also studied modern dance with Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman. She became ballerina of the Zagreb Opera (1930-33) and joined the Paris Opera in 1933, dancing with Serge Lifar. In London she danced with Anton Dolin before joining the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (1938-42). Slavenska starred in a wonderful French film, La Mort du Cygne (1938), in which she and Yvette Chauviré (who later became a prima ballerina of the Paris Opera Ballet) played rival ballerinas. Janine Charrat, who became one of France's leading choreographers, played a young ballet student. The Hollywood version, called The Unfinished Dance (1947), set ballet in this country back a hundred years.
She later formed her own company, Ballet Variante. Slavenska also continued to dance as a guest artist for many major ballet companies, and in 1953 she established the Slavenska-Franklin ballet company with Frederic Franklin. One of the roles she created was Blanche Dubois in Valerie Bettis' A Streetcar Named Desire. In her final years, Ms. Slavenska taught ballet in Los Angeles. She passed away on October 5, 2002.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on caption on reverse.
- Autographed: "Mia Slavenska"--On photograph.
- Photographer's signature on recto.
- Part of the collection: Valrene Tweedie collection of dance photographs from the Ballets Russes.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149933127
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Ballet dancers
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Valrene Tweedie collection of dance photographs from the Ballets Russes.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1949
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