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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 ...
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 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 ...
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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- Documentary
- Nancy Buirski
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Feb 5, 2014 · Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike. With her elongated, race-horse physique, she became the new prototype for the great George Balanchine. Because of her extraordinary movement and unique personality on stage, she became a muse to two of the greatest ...