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Ballerina

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by Deirdre Kelly


  Emarot, Jeanne-Emma Marie. See Livry, Emma

  Emarot, Jeanne-Léontine, 72–73

  Ephrussi, Charles, 64, 65

  Eugene Onegin (Pushkin), 117

  L’Europe galante (Campra), 37

  Farrell, Suzanne, 144–45

  Ferraris, Amalia, 75

  Ferri, Alessandra, 163

  Les Fêtes grecques et romaines, 37

  Les Fêtes vénitiennes, 26

  Feydeau, Ernest-Aimé, 87

  La Fille mal gardée (Dauberval), 37, 118

  Fimarcon, Monsieur, 18

  The Firebird (Stravinsky, Fokine), 125, 196

  fire hazards, vii–ix, 71, 80–89

  Fish, Joel, 218–19n33

  Fokine, Mikhail, 121, 124–25, 127, 128, 196

  Fonteyn, Margot, 125, 163

  foyer de la danse, 53–55, 65, 72

  Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 42

  Franca, Celia, 164, 165

  Franco-Prussian War, 60–61, 62

  Frederick Adolf, Prince of Sweden, 19

  Frederick II, King of Prussia (Frederick the Great), 19

  French Revolution, 43–44, 45

  the Fronde, 6

  Gand, Alexandre Maximilien Balthazar de, 24

  Gardel, Maximilien, 37–38, 40

  Garnier, Charles, 52

  Garritano, Mariafrancesca, 171–72

  Gautier, Théophile, 49, 54, 55–56, 78, 89–90, 91

  Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet, 198–202

  Genet, Jean, ix

  Giselle (Saint-Georges), 50, 79, 118, 128, 136, 188, 194

  Glasco, Kimberly, 156–58, 159–69, 224n28

  Gochnauer, Lois, 167

  Goleizovsky, Kasyan, 131

  Goncourt, Edmond de, 36

  Grahn, Lucile, 50

  Grand-Maître, Jean, 159

  Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, 169, 190

  Grantzow, Adèle, 76

  Gregory, Cynthia, 151

  Grisi, Carlotta, 50

  Grognet, Manon, 34

  Gruer, Maximilien-Claude, 30–31

  Guenther, Heidi, 143–44, 222n56

  Guest, Ivor, 72

  Guillem, Sylvie, 163, 197

  Guimard, Fabien, 36

  Guimard, Marie-Madeleine, 35–45, 51, 214n116

  Guimard (the Widow), 36

  Guinness, Walter, 124

  Hagman, Sophie, 19

  Halévy, Ludovic, 51

  Hanna, Judith Lynne, 135

  Haran, Anne, 18

  Hart, Evelyn, 185, 188–89

  Harvey, Cynthia, 150

  Harwood, Vanessa, 167, 191

  Haussmann, Georges-Eugène, 52–53

  Hennessey, Traci, 143–44

  Heppenstall, Rayner, 1

  Holmes, Anna-Marie, 144

  Homans, Jennifer, 8, 116

  Houle, Julie, 166–67

  Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 64

  Imperial Ballet School (later the Mariinsky), 116, 117, 119, 120, 127, 130

  injury prevention and athletic training, vii–ix, 71, 80–89, 175–85, 190, 191

  Iphigénie en Tauride (Desmarest), 23

  Istomina, Avdotia, 117

  Ivanov, Lev, 118

  Jaffe, Susan, 150

  Jago-Romeril, Mary, 191, 192–93

  Janin, Jules, 49

  Jarente de La Bruyère, Louis-Sextius de, Bishop of Orléans, 39, 41–42

  La Jeune fille aux allumettes (Benoît-Lévy), viii–ix

  Jockey Club de Paris, 50–51, 72, 73, 74

  Kahane, Martine, 61–62

  Kain, Karen, 163, 190, 191

  Karsavina, Tamara, 124–25, 130

  Kaye, Nora, 187

  Kendall, Richard, 66

  Kent, Julie, 193–94

  Keynes, John Maynard, 124

  Kirkland, Gelsey: on Balanchine and psychological distress, 138, 141, 145, 197–98; firing of, 149–50; Gelsey Kirkland Academy, 198–202; plastic surgeries, 137

  Kirov Ballet. See the Mariinsky

  Kirstein, Lincoln, 130

  Kolosova, Evgenia, 117

  La Korrigane (Mérante), 67

  Kschessinska, Mathilde, 119–23, 125–26

  Kschessinsky, Felix, 120

  Kudelka, James, 157–58, 159–65

  Laborde, Jean-Benjamin de, 38–39, 41, 43

  Laborie, Dr., 82–83

  La Fontaine, Mlle, 12

  Lancret, Nicolas, 33

  Landé, Jean-Baptiste, 116

  La Scala Ballet, 156, 171–72

  Lassiat, Caroline, 76

  Lau, Comtesse de, 43

  Le Boeuf, Claude-François, 31

  Lecouvreur, Adrienne, 25

  Ledoux, Claude Nicolas, 42

  Legnani, Pierina, 92, 119

  Legris, Manuel, 158–59

  Leigh, Vivien, 3

  Leland, Sara, 135

  Lenin, Vladimir, 126

  Leopold, Prince of Salerno, 54

  Levaillant, Denis, 70

  Levinson, André, 128

  Lightheart, Kim, 155

  Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen (Degas), 61–66, 216n33

  Livry, Emma, 105; argued against carteronage, 86–87; early career, 50, 73–80; fatal accident, 80–83, 85, 87–89, 218–19n33; funeral and legacy, ix, 89–92, 136, 219n36

  Lock, Edouard, 169

  Lopokova, Lydia, 124

  Loquasto, Santo, 161

  Louis-Auguste, 22

  Louis-Philippe I, 75

  Louis XIII, King, 5

  Louis XIV, King, 5–6, 13, 18, 22, 38

  Louis XV, King, 31, 34

  Louis XVI, King, 5, 8, 10, 43

  Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 10–13, 16–17, 23

  Luynes, Duc de, 35

  Macaulay, Alastair, 177–78

  Mahalin, Paul, 57–58

  Maintenon, Madame de, 8

  Makarova, Natalia, 150

  Mantz, Paul, 64

  Le Mari de la danseuse (Feydeau), 87

  Marie Antoinette, Queen Consort, 43

  the Mariinsky, 116, 121, 127, 143, 179

  Mario, Giovanni Matteo, 81

  Martens, Frederick H., 11–12

  Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien (Debussy), 124

  Mason, Monica, 141

  Maurepas, Comte de, 30

  Mauri, Rosita, 67

  Maximova, Ekaterina, 163

  Mazarin, Duc de, 18

  Mazarin, Jules, 6

  Mazo, Joseph, 131

  McAllister, David, 183

  McBride, Patricia, 135

  Mearns, Sara, 177

  Melchior, Friedrich, Baron von Grimm, 42

  Melun, Comte de, 29

  Melun, Duc Louis II de, 18

  Mémoires secrets (anon.), 41, 42

  Mérante, Louis, 67

  Mesmes, Jean-Jacques de, 22–24

  Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 49

  Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), 9, 11, 39

  Money, Keith, 127

  Montespan, Madame de, 22

  Montguyon, Ferdinand de, 73–76, 80, 88–89, 90

  Moore, Barbara, 159

  La Mort du cygne (Benoît-Lévy), viii

  La Muette de Portici (Auber), 80–81

  Muller, Jacques, 82

  Murat, Caroline Laetitia, 73

  Napoléon III (Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte), 52, 74–75, 89, 90

  National Ballet of Canada: ageism and Glasco dispute, 151–52, 156–58, 159–69, 224n28; body type preferences, 155
, 169–70; health and safety issues, 172, 184, 190, 191; relationships among dancers, 191; work/life balance, 192–93

  Neary, Patricia, 155–56

  New York City Ballet, 130–37, 140, 149, 177, 179, 207. See also Balanchine, George (Georgi Balanchivadze); Kirkland, Gelsey

  Nicholas I, Tsar, 118

  Nicholas II, Tsar, 121, 125

  Nijinsky, Vaslav, 122–24, 128

  Nissinen, Mikko, 159

  Noverre, Jean-Georges, 40

  Nureyev, Rudolf, 164, 167, 190, 191

  The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky), 132, 162, 177–78, 198–99

  Offenbach, Jacques, 79

  Oliphant, Betty, 164

  Oliver, Wendy, 140

  O’Monroy, Richard, 59

  Opéra Statutes, 18

  Osato, Sono, 136

  outspokenness, 147, 151, 156, 164, 168–69, 170–71. See also Glasco, Kimberly

  Paléologue, Maurice, 125

  Pankov, Gradimir, 169

  Le Papillon (Offenbach, Taglioni), 79–80, 85, 91, 136

  Papillon de La Ferté, Denis-Pierre-Jean, 40

  Paris Opéra: les abonnés, 53–54, 57, 63, 67; backstage world of, 17–20, 31, 50–52; dancers’ revolt, 40; École de Danse, 63, 72; foyer de la danse, 53–55, 65, 72; under Lully, 11–13, 16–17; Palais Garnier, 52–53; petits rats, 55–59; privately funded, after Lully, 47; safety precautions, 84, 86; stagnation of, after Livry, 90–92; Temples of Terpsichore and, 41. See also Degas, Edgar; specific ballerinas

  Pavlova, Anna, 3, 126–29, 190

  Pécour, Guillaume-Louis, 13, 20, 26

  Peppin, Rachel, 141–42

  Perrégaux, Jean-Frédéric, 43

  Perrot, Jules, 72, 118

  Petipa, Lucien, 91

  Petipa, Marius, 91, 118–19, 121

  La Petite Danseuse de Degas (Bart, Levaillant), 70

  les petits rats, 55–61. See also van Goethem, Louise Joséphine (Charlotte); van Goethem, Marie

  Petrushka (Stravinsky, Fokine), 125

  Philomèle (Charpentier), 19

  Pigalle, 62, 68–69

  Pluque, Edouard, 82

  Poinsinet de Sivry, Louis, 28

  Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste (Molière), 9, 11, 39

  Potts, Nadia, 191

  pregnancy, in ballerinas, 36, 50, 55, 72–73, 130, 159, 188, 191–94

  Prévost, Françoise, 20–26, 32–33, 34, 38, 44–45

  Prévost d’Exiles, Antoine François, 31, 34

  Prince (singer), 197

  The Prodigal Son (Diaghilev), 131

  proscenium arch stage, 12, 13–14

  prostitution, of ballerinas, 50–61. See also ballerina-courtesans; Paris Opéra

  Pushkin, Alexander, 117

  Quinault, Philippe, 11, 25

  racism, 194–96

  Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 9, 21, 37, 213n86

  Ratmansky, Alexei, 196

  Rat Mort, 68–69

  Raymonda (Petipa), 92

  Raymonda Variations (Balanchine), 132

  Rebel, Jean-Féry, 21

  retirement issues, 137, 185–91

  The Revolt of the Harem, 84–85

  Rhatigan, Summer Lee, 169–70

  Richardson, Caroline, 204–5

  Ringer, Jenifer, 177–78

  Robert le Diable, 48–49, 83

  Roche-Aymon, Comte de la, 18

  Rodriguez, Sonia, 193

  Roerich, Nicholas, 122

  Rojo, Tamara, 177

  Roland (Quinault), 25

  Romantic ballet, 47–50, 83–84, 91, 117–18, 135–36, 165. See also Livry, Emma; Taglioni, Marie

  Rosati, Carolina, 50, 75

  Rose, Morgann, 170

  Rossignol, Dr., 82–83

  Royer, Alphonse, 75–76

  Rubinstein, Ida, 124

  Runaway, 196

  Russell, Jeffrey, 178–82

  Russian ballet, 91–92, 115–19. See also Balanchine, George (Georgi Balanchivadze); Les Ballets Russes; Kschessinska, Mathilde; Pavlova, Anna; Petipa, Marius

  Sackville, John Frederick, 19

  Le Sacre du printemps (Stravinsky, Nijinsky), 122–23

  safety issues. See injury prevention and athletic training

  Saint-Georges, Jules-Henri Vernoy de, 79

  Saint-Léon, Arthur, 72, 118

  Saint-Victor, Paul de, 77–78

  Sallé, Francis, 32

  Sallé, Marie, 26, 31–35, 45, 213n86

  Sarkissova, Karina, 158–59

  Schéhérazade, 124

  Schlosser, Mlle, 86

  School of American Ballet, 198, 207

  Schorer, Suki, 207

  Scotch Symphony (Balanchine), 132

  Scott, Amber, 184

  Second Empire, 74–75, 90

  Sidimus, Joysanne, 133, 176, 185–88, 189–90, 193

  Siegel, Marcia, 152

  Simpson, Leanne, 190–91

  The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky, Petipa), 92, 118–19, 121, 191

  Somova, Alina, 143

  Soubise, Charles de Rohan, prince de, 39, 41, 43

  Le Spectre de la Rose (Fokine), 125

  Stravinsky, Igor, 122–23, 124

  Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky, Petipa, Ivanov), 92, 118, 132, 161, 162–63

  La Sylphide, 48, 76–77, 118, 136

  Taglioni, Filippo, 48

  Taglioni, Marie: Emma Livry and, 75, 76–77, 79–81, 83; final years, 90–91; private life, 54–55; as Romantic ballerina, 48–49, 50, 117–18

  Tallchief, Maria, 136–37

  Taubert, Gottfried, 7

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, 118

  Tcherkassy, Marianna, 150

  Temples of Terpsichore, 41–43, 44

  Tennant, Veronica, 163, 191

  Terpsichore charitable, ou Mademoiselle Guimard visitant les pauvres, 39

  Thésée (Lully), 23

  Trianon, Henri, 64

  Le Tribut de Zamora, 67

  Le Triomphe de l’Amour (Lully), 12

  Tucker, David, 186–87

  Turner, Bryan S., 2, 172–73

  Vagonova, Agrippina, 199

  La Valse infernale (Meyerbeer), 49

  van Goethem, Antoinette, 62, 63, 67

  van Goethem, Louise Joséphine (Charlotte), 62, 67, 69–70

  van Goethem, Marie, 61–69, 70

  van Hamel, Martine, 150–51

  Vazem, Ekaterina, 92

  Venetozza, Caroline-Dominique (Caroline Lassiat), 76

  Véron, Louis, 54, 55, 57, 60, 72, 84

  Vertpré, Mlle, 10

  Vestris, Auguste, 37, 51

  Victoria, Queen, 3

  Vigée-LeBrun, Élisabeth-Louise, 38

  Vince, Claire, 184–85

  Vincent, Lawrence M., 139

  Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi, 10, 21

  Vizentini, Albert, 59

  Volochkova, Anastasia, 158

  Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de, 31, 32–33

  Wainwright, Steven, 172–73

  Wallis, Lynn, 169–70

  Washington Ballet, 170

  Waterloo Bridge, 3

  Webster, Clara, 84–85, 218n32

  West, Kanye, 196

  Wick, Rebecca, 34

  Wilde, Patricia, 132–33

  Wilder, Valerie, 169–70

  Wilson, Jacqueline, 200–201

  Witkowsky, Gizella, 151–52

  working conditions: of petits rats, 59–61; salaries and job security, 147–49, 153–55, 160–61. See also ageism; body image issues; injury prevention and athletic training; racism


  work/life balance, 132–34, 191–94

  Young, Susan, 136

  Zara (Taglioni), 80

  Zehr, Bridgett, 153–54

  Zehr, Rachel, 154

  Zorina, Vera, 135, 137

  Zucchi, Virginia, 119

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