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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq: Directed by Nancy Buirski. With Tanaquil Le Clerq, Jacques d'Amboise, Barbara Horgan, Randall Bourscheidt. A mesmerizing portrait of legendary ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq - muse to both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins - whose career was cut short by polio at the age of 27.
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- Documentary, Biography, Drama
- Nancy Buirski
- 2013-09-30
As you watch grainy kinescope footage of dancers in a mirrored studio executing a pas de deux in the documentary biography “Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq,” it is almost as though you ...
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Feb 5, 2014 · February 5, 2014. 4 min read. "Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq. Many documentaries about ballet and its practitioners, even the very best, understandably appeal mainly to a core audience of dance aficionados. Nancy Buirski ‘s mesmerizing, beautifully crafted “Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil le Clercq” proves a striking exception to ...
Jun 5, 2014 · June 5, 2014. Born in Paris, Tanaquil Le Clercq (1929 – 2000) was the daughter of a French intellectual and a society matron from St. Louis, MO. When Tanny was three, they moved to New York ...
Feb 4, 2014 · Tanaquil Le Clercq. Buirski was inspired to make a film about Le Clercq after seeing footage of her dancing in “Afternoon of a Faun,” Jerome Robbins’s 1953 ballet. “I’d seen nothing like it — her elegance, her beauty, her movement,” Buirski says. Her documentary includes archival footage of Le Clercq performing in Balanchine’s ...
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Afternoon of a Faun celebrates Tanny's unique physical gifts and profiles her phenomenal career in-depth, it more importantly gives the feeling that we know her. Rated: 8.5/10 • Apr 3, 2019. The ...
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