Alexandra Danilova Collection 1920-2000

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Alexandra Danilova Collection 1920-2000

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Correspondence, writings, including a typescript of Danilova's memoirs titled , speeches and lectures, programs, printed material, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, artwork, photographs, and other papers relating to Danilova's career in dance primarily as a teacher at the School of American Ballet. Also includes material from her years with the de Basil Ballets Russes and the Denham Ballet Russe and from her touring company, Great Moments of Ballet. Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova

4,500 items; 46 containers; 30 linear feet

eng,

Library of Congress. Music Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6357842

Library of Congress. Music Division

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School of American Ballet

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Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997

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Ballerina and dance educator Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova (1903-1907) was born in Petergof, Russia. In 1911, she began studying dance at the Russian Imperial Ballet School in Leningrad. There she met George Balanchine, with whom she would maintain a life-long friendship. In 1920, Danilova danced with the Maryinsky Ballet. She joined Balanchine's Soviet State Dancers for a tour of Western Europe in 1924. In December of that year, Sergey Diaghilev brought both her and Balanchine into his acclai...