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| Minor White Thaddeus E. Hayes, San Francisco 1952 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Russell Westwood Moira Shearer and Léonide Massine in The Red Shoes 1948 C-print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Carl Van Vechten Wilbur McCormack in Boxing Dance 1938 gelatin silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Hector McDonald Sutton Royal Ballet 1977 oil on board Mansfield District Council, Nottinghamshire |
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| Sasha Felia Doubrovska as a Siren in Prodigal Son (Ballets Russes) 1929 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Elie Nadelman Dancing Figure (Artemis) ca. 1916-18 limestone Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Barbara Morgan José Limón in Mexican Suite 1944 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| George Platt Lynes Tanaquil Le Clercq in Balanchine's Metamorphoses ca. 1950-51 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory Pas de Deux ca. 1760-63 porcelain Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Willem van Leusden Dancers 1920 gouache on paper Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Joyce Lamensdorf Untitled 1957 photoengraving Princeton University Art Museum |
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| William Klein Crab Dancer, Tokyo 1961 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Emil Otto Hoppé Lubov Tchernicheva in Cléopâtre (Ballets Russes costume by Sonia Delaunay) 1919 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Sonia Delaunay Costume for Cléopâtre (Ballets Russes) 1918 beaded and embroidered silk Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Alexandra Exter Costume Design for Touring (Théâtre Chorégraphique of Bronislava Nijinska) 1925 watercolor and gouache Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Jillian Edelstein Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope (Royal Ballet, London) 1993 bromide print National Portrait Gallery, London |
A Sound Box
Down, unequal weight on his haunches
and the rain driving his shirt sideways,
his legs are as rigid as the stone and timber
that props him up. Ears, half-opened lips
slurred to bits; a head no longer able
to troubleshoot the broken glass inside him.
*
Wiry treetops are blacker. The after-rain light
diffused to near neon-gray. There was a boy
seen by neighbors running the width of the field.
One said he disappeared – as if he fell headlong
into the horizon. Another said it wasn't a boy,
but a hart. Next to nothing left where Evans
was found, but there was a sound box,
some thing in which his soul made itself felt.
– Michelle O'Sullivan (2015)