Research Catalog

Title

[Ballet dancers] [graphic] / D Sramek.

Author

Sramek, Donna.

Publication

[197-?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

8 prints : lithograph, color; 72 x 66 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Eight lithographs of ballet dancers, chiefly women. Three are titled after ballets: Swan lake, Winterset, and Romeo and Juliet. A fourth print, untitled, depicts a kneeling woman, probably costumed for Romeo and Juliet, with a roughly sketched figure beside her, visible mostly from the waist down, its hand on her shoulder. The remaining four prints, Rehearsal, Révérence, L'́Étude, and an untitled print of a woman in arabesque, portray dancers performing ballet movements in the studio or unspecified settings.

Subjects

• Lithographs
• Winterset (Choreographic work : Sebastian)
• Ballet dancers
• Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
• Swan lake (Choreographic work : Franklin and Petrov)
• Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : Monreal)

Genre/Form

Lithographs.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Signed.
• The prints titled Rehearsal, Révérence, Swan Lake, Winterset, and Romeo and Juliet are limited editions of 300.
• The print titled L'́Étude and the untitled print of a dancer in arabesque are limited editions of 350.
• The untitled print depicting a kneeling woman, probably costumed for Romeo and Juliet, is a limited edition of 366.

Source (note)

• Roger Sramek

Biography (note)

• According to the website of Larry D. Laster Old & Rare Books, Art & Antiques, the print Révérence was part of a collection of some eighteen images created on commission by artist Donna Sramek from drawings made at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre circa 1975-1978. All of the ballets named in this collection were in the company's repertory in the mid-1970s. Swan lake, choreographed by Frederic Franklin and Nicolas Petrov (the company's founder and director), was first presented by the company in 1971, and restaged in 1975. A version of Romeo and Juliet had been created for the company in 1971 by Petrov, but it is likely that this lithograph depicts the 1977 production with choreography by Lorenzo Monreal. Winterset, based on the play of the same title by Maxwell Anderson, was choreographed for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in 1976 by Stuart Sebastian, to music by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Call Number

*MGZGF Sra D Bal 1-8

OCLC

824962062

Author

Sramek, Donna.

Title

[Ballet dancers] [graphic] / D Sramek.

Imprint

[197-?]

Biography

According to the website of Larry D. Laster Old & Rare Books, Art & Antiques, the print Révérence was part of a collection of some eighteen images created on commission by artist Donna Sramek from drawings made at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre circa 1975-1978. All of the ballets named in this collection were in the company's repertory in the mid-1970s. Swan lake, choreographed by Frederic Franklin and Nicolas Petrov (the company's founder and director), was first presented by the company in 1971, and restaged in 1975. A version of Romeo and Juliet had been created for the company in 1971 by Petrov, but it is likely that this lithograph depicts the 1977 production with choreography by Lorenzo Monreal. Winterset, based on the play of the same title by Maxwell Anderson, was choreographed for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in 1976 by Stuart Sebastian, to music by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Local Note

Library has no. 291 of Rehearsal .

Library has no. 300 of Révérence.

Library has no. 298 of Swan lake.

Library has no. 300 of Winterset.

Library has no. 292 of Romeo and Juliet.

Library has no. 350 of L'Étude.

Library has no. 366 of the untitled Romeo and Juliet print.

Library's copy of the untitled dancer in arabesque is labeled: 16/66 ed 350.

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

Gift; Roger Sramek, 1979.

Added Author

Sramek, Roger. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZGF Sra D Bal 1-8