Research Catalog
[Dance scenes]
- Title
- [Dance scenes] [graphic] / d thurston.
- Author
- Thurston, Doris.
- Publication
- [1950?-1953?]
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- Description
- 2 drawings : pastel on black background, color; 31 x 25 cm. or smaller, one on mount 36 x 28 cm., one in mat 50 x 31 cm.
- Summary
- Two drawings inspired by dance works. One, labeled Doris Humphrey's Deep rhythm, portrays four female dancers in long dresses, standing with hands folded. The second, bearing the dual titles Two dancers and Illuminations, George Balanchine (choreographer), is more impressionistic, and portrays a pair of dancers in similar positions.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drawings.
- Note
- Signed: d thurston. The drawing titled Two dancers also bears the artist's monogram.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Biography (note)
- Deep rhythm was the original title of Doris Humphrey's Ritmo jondo (music, Carlos Surinach; scenery, Jean Rosenthal; costumes, Pauline Lawrence), first performed in 1953 by José Limón and Company. The ballet Illuminations, choreographed by Frederick Ashton rather than George Balanchine, was first performed by Balanchine's New York City Ballet in 1950, with music by Benjamin Britten and scenery and costumes by Cecil Beaton.
- Doris Thurston is a writer, dancer, choreographer, and artist whose interests include religious dancing and painting inspired by religious subjects.
- Call Number
- *MGZGD Thu D Dan 1-2
- OCLC
- 824798172
- Author
- Thurston, Doris.
- Title
- [Dance scenes] [graphic] / d thurston.
- Imprint
- [1950?-1953?]
- Biography
- Deep rhythm was the original title of Doris Humphrey's Ritmo jondo (music, Carlos Surinach; scenery, Jean Rosenthal; costumes, Pauline Lawrence), first performed in 1953 by José Limón and Company. The ballet Illuminations, choreographed by Frederick Ashton rather than George Balanchine, was first performed by Balanchine's New York City Ballet in 1950, with music by Benjamin Britten and scenery and costumes by Cecil Beaton.Doris Thurston is a writer, dancer, choreographer, and artist whose interests include religious dancing and painting inspired by religious subjects.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZGD Thu D Dan 1-2