Silan Chen collection, [19--?-ongoing].

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Silan Chen collection, [19--?-ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430359346

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1 folder.

Museum of Performance & Design

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Museum of Performance & Design

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Leyda, Si-lan Chen, 1909-1996

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Si-Lan Chen was born in Trinidad and moved to London in 1912 where she studied dance at the Stedman Academy. In 1926 she joined her father, who had become secretary for Sun Yat-sen and Foreign Minister of the Canton government. In 1927, after Chiang Kai-shek took power, the family fled to Moscow. Chen enrolled in the Bolshoi Ballet School but disliked the discipline and switched to Vera Maya's school. She gave her first important recital in 1930 at the Moscow Conservatory. After adapting her sty...