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Posted inHealth, Lifestyle

Tanaquil Le Clercq and the possibility of resurrection

Candice Holdsworth by Candice Holdsworth 15 September 201415 September 2014

“I’m not a dancer anymore, who am I?” – Jacques d’Amboise When prima ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq (1929-2000) played the part of a stricken polio victim in Resurgence (1944) when she was fifteen, little did she know that she was rehearsing her own sad fate. The biographical documentary Afternoon of a Faun (2013) tells the […]

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