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| Jean-Louis Forain Dancer in her Dressing Room ca. 1890 oil on panel Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Laura Knight Vanda Evina making up for The Roses (London Coliseum) 1924 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Laura Knight The Ballet Shoe ca. 1932 oil on board Royal Pavilion, Brighton |
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| Georges-William Thornley after Edgar Degas Before the Ballet Class ca. 1889-90 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Alfred Eisenstaedt Ballet Rehearsal, Swan Lake, Paris Opera 1930 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Lucien Aigner Dancers, Opera Ballet, Paris 1934 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| James Edward Davis Ballet Rehearsal 1935 drawing (colored chalks) Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Paul Cadmus Reflection 1944 tempera on masonite Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Paul Cadmus Arabesque 1947 etching Detroit Institue of Arts |
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| Michael Peto Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn rehearsing Giselle in London (first production danced together) 1962 bromide print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowden Margot Fonteyn in rehearsal with John Cranko 1972 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Edgar Degas Dancers in the Wings ca. 1876-78 pastel Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
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| Laura Knight In the Coulisses (Ballets Russes) 1919 oil on panel Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall |
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| Ruth Levy Dancers, New York City Ballet, State Theater, Lincoln Center 1972 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Laurie Lewis Stuart Cassidy, Deborah Bull, Darcey Bussell in the wings, Royal Ballet, London 1995 inkjet print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Mary McCartney Interval (Royal Ballet, London) 2004 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
from The Mike Goldberg Variations
To fame! to fortune! to the modest whim of the public air
which has everything it needs including blue, clouds and mouths
which has everything it needs including blue, clouds and mouths
agape, we offer our tensile wrists strong as granite,
slender as wiry palmettos rattling in the innumerable Souths.
O golden mountain, perilous to youths!
– Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)