I love these old Life magazines photos of the ballerinas on break at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet in NYC. I was horrible at ballet as a child, but kept wanting to sign up for classes simply because I loved tutus. (I eventually gave it up because I was always tripping over my own feet. I decided to try Disco instead. The results were equally horrendous. ) Now I love the ballet for, yes, the tutus, but for so many other things as well....
haha, this makes me laugh, I too was awful at ballet, despite my mother's best efforts! And the pictures are beautiful, I love them. Oh to be that graceful, huh? I have just started following your blog, and i think it's fabulous!
ReplyDeleteI was awful at ballet too. My dance teachers were an English mother/daughter duo and the daughter was at least 65 - I kid you not.
ReplyDeleteI was very proud of my blue tutu and the spangly head dress I had to wear at the recital
oh you got to wear blue!! mine was pink. my mom saved it for years, flattened into a box. I wonder where it is now..sigh...
ReplyDeleteLove these pics. I never did ballet as a kid but I did a course of adult ballet classes last year. I felt ever so graceful after them!
ReplyDeleteThank you for these lovely pictures. So precious.
ReplyDeleteI just love how healthy and strong these ballet dancers look, not the modern anorexic stereotype.
ReplyDeleteI'm the same - but I quit because I had a teacher called mrs smiles who was mean! Irony!
ReplyDeleteThey look much more solidly built than I imagine ballerinas today to be.
ReplyDeleteSame here - I still love the esthetics of old-fashioned (i.e. non-anorectic and tutu-adorned) ballet even though I was so bad at it that my teachers tried to get rid of me with all the required meanness. It didn't make me graceful, though - it took a tango class to make me lose my ugly-duckling-waddle (and start floating like a swan? :)
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