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Photo de Andrea Pavley Primer Bailarín del Ballet de Chicago, foto de desnudo, 1930s. 8x10 inch Stamped by Mexico photograph Tinoco handsigned Andrea Pavley Shipping worldwide Combined shipping Chicago Ballet Chicago Opera Ballet , established in 1910, which marks the beginnings of the first American ballet company. Chicago Grand Opera Company's first ballet master was Luigi Albertieri (protégé of Enrico Cecchetti ). The opera became a base from which successful Chicago resident dance companies emerged. In 1922 two émigré dancers, Andreas Pavley and Serge Oukrainsky, among the opera's most illustrious early ballet masters, created Chicago's first independent ballet company, the Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet, which toured nationally and internationally until Pavley died in 1931. In 1919, Adolph Bolm was invited by the opera to stage an original ballet. Based on a story by Oscar Wilde , Bolm's "The Birthday of the Infanta" had music by Chicago composer John Alden Carpenter and decor by the American designer Robert Edmond Jones . Midwest dancer Ruth Page starred as the infanta. When Pavley and Oukrainsky left the opera in 1922 to form their company, Bolm became the opera's ballet master. Subsequently he helped establish Chicago's Allied Arts, considered the first ballet theater in the United States, which he directed from 1924 to 19 27. Allied Arts ceased for lack of funds, but the Adolph Bolm Ballet continued. Experimentation continued in the 1930s and included a pioneering attempt by Mark Turbyfill (Chicago Opera) and his former student Katherine Dunham to organize an African American ballet company in Chicago. In 1933, Ruth Page choreographed "La Guiablesse", which featured Page along with Dunham and an all-black supporting cast. Dunham, Ruth Page and Bentley Stone formed the Chicago Works Progress Administration (WPA) Dance Project and had significant success. Two important ballets emerged by Page and Stone; "American Patterns" (1937), the first feminist ballet, and the landmark "Frankie & Johnnie". Following the WPA, The Page-Stone Ballet was the first American ballet company to tour South America. Ruth Page became the leading force of ballet in Chicago, establishing many Chicago companies with various names: Chicago Grand Opera Company, Ravinia Opera Festival, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Ballet, Ruth Page's International Ballet and Chicago Ballet, with Ben Stevenson and Larry Long as Co-Artistic directors in 1974. Chicago Ballet was well known for Page's version of " The Nutcracker ", considerered one of the finest, at Chicago's Arie Crown Theater in McCormick Place. It premiered in 1965 and continued until the mid '80s. Many international ballet stars appeared with the company during the long "Nutcracker" seasons. Nickolas Muray Nickolas Muray, 1933 Girl in Red , 1936 advertising photo for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Cover photo of Joan Caulfield for McCall's Magazine , 1941. Photo courtesy George Eastman House . Nickolas Muray (born Mandl Miklós [1 ] 15 February 1892, Szeged - 2 November 1965, New York ) was a Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic fencer. Biography Muray attended a graphic arts school in Budapest , where he studied lithography, photoengraving, and photography. After earning an International Engraver's Certificate, Muray took a three-year course in color photoengraving in Berlin , where, among other things, he learned to make color filters. At the end of his course he went to work for the publishing company Ullstein. In 1913, with the threat of war in Europe, Muray sailed to New York City, and was able to find work as a color printer in Brooklyn .By 1920, Muray had opened a portrait studio at his home in Greenwich Village , while still working at his union job as an engraver. In 1921 he received a commission from Harper's Bazaar to do a portrait of the Broadway actress Florence Reed ; soon after he was having photographs published each month in Harper's Bazaar, and was able to give up his engraving job. read more

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