Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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FROM : COHEN - STRATYNER , BARBARA NAOMI Biographical dictionary of dance . Roshanara - Rosita New York , Schirmer Books ( 1982 ] Caravan and was an organizer of the American and included Camoflage , The Field of Honor , and Dancer Association and the dance unionizing move- After the War ( 1917 ) . ment . Rosenthal served as production supervisor for As well as dancing and choreographing , she seems all of Hawkins ' companies - the Graham troupe to have served as a freelance expert on India for the ( 1949-1957 ) , Balanchine's Ballet Society , The New atrical productions in New York , among them Win York City Ballet ( 1948 until her death ) , and Robbins ' throp Ames ' The Green Goddess ( 1920 ) , for which Ballets : U.S.A. As well as designing lighting for the she received credit as the costume designer . While two companies ' productions , she was responsible for there is no way to judge the authenticity of her work , creating the tree in The Nutcracker . Her major con- there is no question that her presence in New York as tribution to dance lighting designs came in her inter- a performer , as a writer on Indian dance as both a est in the white - light concept of using unjellied light- valuable technique and as an exercise , and as a ing equipment to define shapes of space on stage , teacher lent enormous weight to productions of thereby adding to the choreography , rather than just dances and plays set in India . There is growing evi coloring it . dence that her work at the Neighborhood Playhouse Rosenthal also worked her magic of light on made her a major influence on the many concert Broadway , designing Robbins ' King and I ( 1950 ) , dancers trained there by her or by Talmud , in terms West Side Story ( 1957 ) , A Funny Thing Happened of both the professional life of the concert dancer on the Way to the Forum ( 1962 ) , and Fiddler on the and the value of isolated movements , especially of Roof ( 1964 ) , Hanya Holm's Kiss Me Kate ( 1948 ) , the hands , in their choreography . Bob Fosse's Redhead ( 1959 ) , and Michael Kidd's Works Choreographed : CONCERT WORKS : The Destry Rides Again ( 1959 ) . Nautch ( 1910 ) ; Dagger Dance ( 1911 ) ; Incense Dance ( 1911 ) ; Radha ( 1911 ) ; The Snake Dance ( 1911 ) ; Bur Roshanara , English dancer specializing in Indian and Dances ( Kayar Than — The Ancient Court Asian performance styles ; born Olive Craddock , Dance of Greeting , Modern Butterfly Dance ) ( 1917 ) ; January 1894 in Calcutta ; died July 14 , 1926 in New The Field of Honor ( 1917 ) ; A Hindu Fantasy ( 1917 ) ; York . The daughter of an Irish officer in the British Harvest Dance - the Golden Winnow ( 1917 ) ; East Army in India , she was trained in local dance forms Indian Folk Dances ( 1917 ) ; Marwari Village Dance as a child and adolescent . Moving to London in 1910 , ( 1917 ) ; On the Way to the Temple ( 1917 ) ; After the she was recommended by Loie Fuller to perform as a War ( 1917 ) ; Camoflage ( 1917 ) ; A Burmese Boat specialty dancer in Oscar Ash's production of Kis- ( 1918 ) ; A Moon Flower ( 1918 ) . met ; according to many contemporary sources , she also worked as an extra in the Ballet Russe's produc- Rosita , American exhibition ballroom dancer ; born tion of Schéhérézade in 1911 in London , although c.1910 , probably in the United States , but reportedly she may have performed in the Kosloff version in in Cuba . Either Rosita or her successor Renita was that season instead . born Mary - Jane Louisa Hanrick , but sources differ After traveling between New York and Europe as to her identity . With her partner , Ramon ( Reachi ) , from 1913 to 1917 , Roshanara settled in the United Rosita performed in Hollywood - area clubs before States in 1916. She performed as a solo specialty act signing a joint contract with MGM ( 1933-1934 ) and on the Keith vaudeville circuit in 1916 , then joined First National / Warner Brothers ( 1934-1937 ) . Al with Adolf Bolm and Michio Ito on the Ballet Intime though they appeared in more than a dozen short tours of 1917 and 1918. Assisted by Mary Eaton and subject and feature films , they are unquestionably Blanche Talmud ( both as students ) , she performed a best remembered as the art deco team in the “ Lull repertory of Indian and Oriental dances and scenes , aby of Broadway " number in the Golddiggers of among them , Harvest Dance ( 1917 ) , A Hindu Fan- 1935. In 1935 , however , she and Reachi split up . He tasy ( 1917 ) , and A Moon Flower ( 1918 ) . Her non- joined forces with Renita to work in New York clubs , ethnic works were theatrical answers to World War I while she teamed up with Georges Fontana , a Euro mes 771

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