Popular Balanchine dossiers 1927-2004

Pilcher, Evelyn, 1922-2013

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Evelyn Pilcher (1922-2013) was an African American dancer who was involved with two pioneering 20th century Black ballet troupes and later was briefly a member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. She was born in New York City on March 21, 1922. By the mid-1930s, Pilcher already had established herself as a dancer, performing as part of a juvenile dance specialty act with partner(s) Alvin Padgett and/or Pearl Harrison at nightclubs, charity benefits, and other social events in Harlem. She ...

Romero, Carmencita, 1914- 2001

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Carmencita Romero (1914-2001) was a dancer who was associated with Katherine Dunham's earliest efforts to establish a dance company in Chicago, first, as a member of her short-lived Ballet Nègre, and as a charter member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. Romero later taught the Dunham Technique at schools in the United States, Europe, and Japan. She was born Lily May Butler (there are many variant spellings of her first name on official records) in Brookhaven, Mississippi on January 2, 19...

Banes, Sally

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Hunt, Marilyn, 1937-

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Conyers, Claude

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George Balanchine Foundation

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Popular Balanchine was designed to document the works choreographed by George Balanchine for the popular stage and the movie screen. From 1927-1931, Balanchine staged dances and musical numbers for reviews, variety shows, and operettas in London and Paris as well as creating choreography for Dark red roses, among the first feature-length talking motion pictures made in England. In the United States, from 1936-1954, he worked with Vernon Duke, John Murray Anderson, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, G...

Garafola, Lynn

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DeFrantz, Thomas

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Dorris, George E.

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Chazin-Bennahum, Judith.

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Sommer, Sally R.

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Hill, Constance Valis

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Genne, Beth

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Mattingly, Kate

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Hardy, Camille

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Palfy, Barbara

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Fullington, Doug

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Balanchine, George

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Ballet dancer and ballet and theater choreographer; the major ballet figure in the twentieth century. From the description of Correspondence and contracts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533853 George Balanchine (1904-1983) was a Russian-American dancer and choreographer. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatre School in Petrograd. He left Russia in 1924, and the same year he was engaged by Serge Diaghilev as a choreographer for his company Ballet...

Ross, Janice

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Aldrich, Elizabeth

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Horwitz, Dawn Lille

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Newman, Barbara, 1944-....

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Caines, Christopher

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