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[Dance drawings and prints]

Title
[Dance drawings and prints] [graphic] / Tina Mackler.
Author
Mackler, Tina.
Publication
1965-1969.

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Description
  • 26 drawings (25 sheets) : ink or ink and wash, b&w; 41 x 33 cm. or smaller.
  • 2 prints : etching, b&w ;
Summary
Action sketches and informal portraits of dancers who performed in New York City between 1966 and 1969. The collection is arranged in five groups: Joffrey Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Ballet Folklórico de México, African Dance Company of Ghana (Ghana Dance Ensemble), and Others.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Drawings.
  • Etchings.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • Signed and dated.
  • The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico, Jorge Tyller, Deer dance, 1969 [frontal view of dancer]: Limited edition of 8.
  • The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico, Jorge Tyller, Deer dance, 1969 [side view of dancer]: Limited edition of 9.
Biography (note)
  • Born in London, England, artist Tina Mackler is active in New York City. Her dance illustrations were published in the books To dance, to live (1977), with text by Thalia Mara, and in Mara's The language of ballet: a dictionary (1987).
Contents
  • Folder 1. Joffrey Ballet, 1968-1969 (12 drawings): includes a scene from Gerald Arpino's ballet The clowns; Luis Fuente in the wings for Frederick Ashton's Façade; Christian Holder in Robert Joffrey's Gamelan; Maximiliano Zomosa as Death in Kurt Jooss's The green table; the standard bearer and three soldiers in The green table; Scott Barnard and Erika Goodman in Arpino's Incubus; Barbara Remington in Konservatoriet, staged by Hans Brenaa after August Bournonville; the pianist and the pupil in Flemming Flindt's The lesson; Remington in Joffrey's Pas des déesses; Remington in the wings; three female dancers in rehearsal; and two female dancers.
  • Bolshoi Ballet, 1966-1968 (4 drawings): includes Maya Plisetskaya in The dying swan; Plisetskaya backstage; Maya Samokhvalova backstage; three female dancers.
  • Folder 2. Ballet Folklórico de México, 1969 (2 drawings, 2 prints): four different views of the Deer dance, with Jorge Tyller identified as the performer in three images.
  • African Dance Company of Ghana (Ghana Dance Ensemble), 1968 (3 drawings): includes Kpantogo, Lamentations: Sohu, Husago and Atsia, and Suite for Donno and Brekete.
  • Others, 1965-1969 (5 drawings on 4 sheets): includes the Spanish dancer Antonio (three views on one sheet); Mr. and Mrs. Moiseyev and Lev Colovanov in rehearsal; ballerina Vera Nemtchinova in street clothes, with a sketch of a female and male dancer on the verso; Rudolf Nureyev in Giselle with the Royal Ballet.
Call Number
*MGZGD Mac T Dan 1-27
OCLC
824738528
Author
Mackler, Tina.
Title
[Dance drawings and prints] [graphic] / Tina Mackler.
Imprint
1965-1969.
Biography
Born in London, England, artist Tina Mackler is active in New York City. Her dance illustrations were published in the books To dance, to live (1977), with text by Thalia Mara, and in Mara's The language of ballet: a dictionary (1987).
Local Note
The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico, Jorge Tyller, Deer dance, 1969 [frontal view of dancer]: Library has no. 1.
The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico, Jorge Tyller, Deer dance, 1969 [side view of dancer]: Library has no. 2.
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Research Call Number
*MGZGD Mac T Dan 1-27
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