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Sidell Sisters

Date: 1928
Description: The Sidell Sisters in the Apache dance scene from Ziegfield's production of Show Boat. The Sidell Sisters were former students of Leo Kehl.
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The Nutcracker Ballet

Date: 11 17 1950
Description: Elaine Tripalin, trained at the Kathryn Hubbard School, is shown dancing the role of the 'Sugar Plum Fairy' in 'The Nutcracker' ballet at the Masonic audit...
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Pierre Sidell as a Ballerina

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Description: Pierre Sidell poses in a ballet dancing costume and pointe shoes, standing en pointe. The photograph is inscribed, "To my Teacher Leo Kehl. Pierre Sidell".
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Ballerinas in a Wooded Glen

Date: 1958
Description: Girls of a visiting ballet company, in costume, posed in a rocky wooded glen along a stream.
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Tibor Zana and the Madison Ballet Company

Date: 05 10 1961
Description: Tibor Zana, a refugee from Communist Hungary, is taking over the Kathryn Hubbard School of Dance and renaming it the Madison School of Ballet. He is also f...
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Choreographer Rehearsing U.W. Dancers

Date: 07 24 1962
Description: Visiting choreographer William Burdick, in navy blue tights, rehearsing six U.W. dancers for the play "The Servant of Two Masters." The dancers, pictured l...
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Wisconsin Ballet Company Demonstrations

Date: 08 06 1964
Description: Mimi Pansley (?) of McFarland shown performing a sauté, a sample elevation in ballet. The demonstrations were to show how ballet is basic for all forms of ...
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Wisconsin Ballet Company Demonstrations

Date: 08 06 1964
Description: Mimi Pansley (?), of McFarland, performing a temps levé in arabesque, an elevation from one foot into the air from the arabesque position, to show the simi...
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Madison Civic Opera Presents "Falstaff"

Date: 01 27 1965
Description: Eight members of the Wisconsin Ballet, including Mrs. David Johnson who is facing the camera, dance in the final scene of Verdi's comic opera "Falstaff" wh...
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Wisconsin Ballet Company Performance

Date: 03 23 1965
Description: Shown performing are Dayton Civic Ballet soloists Diana Mileski and David Blackburn. They will be part of "An Evening of Dance "at West High School, put on...
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Night Ballet

Date: 1957
Description: Two ballerinas looking out towards the audience are dancing on a stage, with a spotlight outlining them with light. The dancer on the right is holding an u...

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