Tanaquil Le Clercq
- Mar 12, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 8, 2024
Francisco Moncion and Tanaquil Le Clercq in Afternoon of a Faun
TYPE OF RESOURCE still image
GENRE Photographs
DATE CREATED 1953
DIVISION Jerome Robbins Dance Division
PHOTOGRAPHER Melton, Frederick
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
AFTERNOON OF A FAUN (LeClercq and d'Amboise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYHzMxq3wrY
Polio and the Career of Tanaquil Le Clercq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy9FkPGNFw4
Tanaquil Le Clercq, the Ideal Balanchine Dancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_BnG68d-w
Tanaquil Le Clercq and Jerome Robbins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw1C55Ijp70
Dancing Past the Light: The Life of Tanaquil Le Clercq. Author Talk with Orel Protopopescu
Tanaquil Le Clercq
Tanaquil Le Clercq (October 2, 1929 – December 31, 2000) was an American ballet dancer, born in Paris, France, who became a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet at the age of nineteen. Her dancing career ended abruptly when she was stricken with polio in Copenhagen during the company's European tour in 1956. Eventually regaining most of the use of her arms and torso, she remained paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life.
S28 EP6: TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ: AFTERNOON OF A FAUN
Biography
Tanaquil Le Clercq in La Valse.
Photo taken in 1951 by Walter E. Owen (1896-1963).
Better times The dancer Tanaquil Le Clercq and her husband, George Balanchine, in 1955.Credit...AFP Photo/Intercontinentale
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Dances at a Gathering" with guest duo pianists Robert Fizdale and Arthur Gold, Tanaquil LeClercq and Jerome Robbins, choreography by Jerome Robbins (New York)
Date 1969 (GO..)
The moving story of Tanaquil Le Clercq
*as published on November 11th, 2020
The story of Tanaquil Le Clercq deserved a movie, even for those who don’t know ballet. In addition to having played a key role in the development of dance in the United States (she was a student, later muse, and wife of George Balanchine) she tragically was the victim of polio at the height of her career, losing the movement of her legs for the rest of her life. She passed away nearly 20 years ago (December 31, 2000) in New York. She left a repertoire that is still danced by the New York City Ballet to this day and is one of the most moving stories of Art in the 20th century.
Tanaquil Le Clercq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaquil_Le_Clercq
VOGUE 1949 MAY
BALLET EXERCISES
There is hardly a woman who hasn't, for reasons of beauty or health, decided frequently (but, alas, sporadically that she needs more exercise. But after a few mornings of purposeful derring-do, the routine of mechanical exercise becomes a bore, a few morn ings later a chure and soon after that, a lost cause.
That's why we have asked Tanaquil Le Clereq, the brilliant young ballerina, to show you here some basic ballet exercises. Because these are fun. And done to music (anything you enjoy they are such a free-flowing delight it's hard to believe they are helping to slim the waist, the hips, the thighs, that they are improving posture and flexibility: that they are adding to co-ordination, and grace.
Before you start these exercises, memorize a few rules. When the foot leaves the floor, it is scraped off, the heel is turned inwards, and the pointed toe is the last part of the foot to leave the ground. When the foot is set down on the floor, the toe touches first, the heel is forced inward as it comes down. The arme move with the wrist leading, al ways. And whenever you bend, in this exercise regime, it's always from the waist, with the chest and chin beld high. Ready? Music!
George Balanchine / Tanaquil Le Clercq
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