I was there!
REFERENCE PAGE
SOURCES
The source of the material in this essay is based upon the conversation between the author of this article, Elena Alexandra, TFG Founder Lana David and Barbara Cole Folsom, with the presence of Sam Folsom, recorded on March 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA.
Additional sources listed below are references for factual information included in this article, in order of narrative.
School of American Ballet students in 1940s (caption info, partial):
https://balanchine-ballet-master.tumblr.com/post/125358033413/balanchine-teaching-class-at-sab-school-of
The NY Times “The leaves are Fading” 1975 archive article by Clive Barnes
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/19/archives/ballet-a-tudor-at-last-leaves-are-fading-ends-25year-wait.html
The NY Times Antony Tudor 1987 archive article by Jennifer Dunning
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/20/obituaries/antony-tudor-choreographer-dies.html
Agnes de Mille
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agnes-de-Mille
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_de_Mille
http://www.agnesdemilledances.com/biography.html
Ballet Rambert
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ballet-Rambert
Dame Marie Rambert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Rambert
Ruth Page Choreographing Shakespeare (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az1miSiVyMM
Anna Pavlova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Pavlova
Admiral Broadway Revue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Broadway_Revue
Your Show of Shows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Show_of_Shows
Mary Day quote source
https://www.washingtonballet.org/about/
The Washington School of Ballet and The Washington Ballet
https://www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/the-washington-school-of-ballet-and-the-washington-ballet#footnote-link-fnote-3
Ruth Ann Koesun
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/2/12/18410253/former-american-ballet-theatre-ballerina-ruth-ann-koesun-has-died-in-chicago
Melissa Hayden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Hayden_(dancer)
Michael Kidd
https://www.ladancechronicle.com/remembering-the-legendary-michael-kidd/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-kidd-theatre-and-film-choreographer-767281.html
Russian Revolution
https://www.history.com/topics/russia/russian-revolution
Alicia Alonso
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Alonso
Nikolai Yavorsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yavorsky
Cuban National Ballet/ Ballet Nacional de Cuba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_National_Ballet
Jerome Robbins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Robbins
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/jerome-robbins-6599.php
Ella Daganova (Jerome Robbins’ teacher)
https://archive.org/stream/danceindexunse_18/danceindexunse_18_djvu.txt
Sanjoy Roy Article on Frederick Ashton
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/mar/02/dance-frederick-ashton
Bronislava Nijinska
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronislava_Nijinska
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bronislava-Nijinska
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/23/archives/bronislava-nijinska-is-dead-at-811.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronislava_Nijinska#Ballet_based_in_Los_Angeles,_from_1940
Isadora Duncan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan
Nora Kaye
http://michaelminn.net/andros/biographies/kaye_nora/
The New York Times 1986 archive article on Lucia Chase by Jack Anderson
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/10/obituaries/lucia-chase-of-ballet-theater-is-dead.html
Lucia Chase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_Chase
Mikhail Mordkin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Mordkin
AGON Ballet
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/arts/dance/25maca.html
Donald Saddler
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/arts/dance/donald-saddler-dancer-and-choreographer-on-broadway-dies-at-96-.html
http://www.playbill.com/article/donald-saddler-veteran-broadway-dancer-and-choreographer-dies-at-94-com-334718
https://www.dancemagazine.com/donald-saddler-1918-2014-2306949294.html
André Eglevsky
http://russianheritagemuseum.com/en/RHM_Andre_Eglevsky/
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/05/archives/andre-eglevsky-dancer-is-dead-was-called-greatest-classicist.html
Leda Anchutina Eglevsky
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/16/obituaries/leda-anchutina-eglevsky-73-dancer-and-founder-of-troupe.html
Alexandra Danilova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Danilova
IMAGE SOURCES
Balanchine et al around piano
https://www.facebook.com/antonytudorballettrust/photos/a.385391942009/10156333658042010/?type=3&theater
School of American Ballet flyer & Lincoln Kirstein
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/01/obituaries/george-balanchine-79-dies-in-new-york.html
School of American Ballet students in 1940s; photo credit: Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Letters-t-1.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=7F4C5761AC5879D06276831E34F47DE5&gwt=pay
Balanchine instructs Mary Ellen Moylan; photo credit: Hans Knopf (1942), from the archives of Norton Owen with Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
https://artsmeme.com/tag/mary-ellen-moylan/
Antony Tudor
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/478296422898210312/
Gelsey Kirkland and Jonas Kage in The Leaves are Fading; photo by Martha Swope
https://www.facebook.com/antonytudorballettrust/photos/pb.144667747009.-2207520000.1554040207./10157180159987010/?type=3&eid=ARDFF32mp6o4v-WzNfmcvCO9310ktwKtQbEyXpnPCtqURZ8-bGpSt_vWlJs7DoEQzpE3EPCtfQmLCp6q
Agnes de Mille in 1954; photo credit: Everett (Everett Collection)
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/agnes-de-milles-artistic-justice
Everett Collection
https://news.everettcollection.com/about-everett/
Agnes de Mille in character
https://isak.typepad.com/isak/2012/10/speaking-agnes-de-mille.html
Agnes De Mille Resting Her Arm on Balance Bar; photo by Nickolas Muray (circa 1928)
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/agnes-de-mille-resting-her-arm-on-a-balance-bar-nickolas-muray.html
The Kiss aka V-J Day in Times Square; photo credit: Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-mendonsa-sailor-whose-times-square-kiss-celebrated-end-of-wwii-dies-at-95/2019/02/18/6450196c-3398-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.44a200c96311
American Ballet Theatre 75th Anniversary Timeline
http://www.adlubow.com/abt75/
Ballet Theatre 1940 newspaper ad
https://www.facebook.com/antonytudorballettrust/photos/a.385391942009/10153429203707010/?type=3&theater
Ruth Page as Juliet in her adaptation of Romeo and Juliet (c. 1939)
http://publications.newberry.org/dig/creating-shakespeare/ruth-page-as-juliet-in-romeo-and-juliet
Ruth Page and Harald Kreutzberg in Bacchanale, photo by Maurice Seymour (Chicago, circa 1934)
https://publications.newberry.org/digitalexhibitions/items/show/539
Ruth Page as Lady Macbeth in her adaptation of MacBeth (c. 1939)
http://publications.newberry.org/dig/creating-shakespeare/ruth-page-as-lady-macbeth-in-macbeth-1?path=beyond-the-stage-1
Anna Pavlova
https://alchetron.com/Anna-Pavlova
Admiral Broadway Revue
https://cscottrollins.blogspot.com/2013/11/comedy-legend-imogene-coca-im-cuckoo.html
James Starbuck rehearsing with Alicia Markova for Your Show of Shows (1953)
https://themakingofmarkova.com/tag/imogene-coca/
Imogene Coca
https://cscottrollins.blogspot.com/2013/11/comedy-legend-imogene-coca-im-cuckoo.html
Washington Ballet 1961 Nutcracker program cover page
https://www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/the-washington-school-of-ballet-and-the-washington-ballet
DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC
https://www.dar.org/constitution-hall/constitution-hall-history
Washington Ballet founder Mary Day
https://www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/the-washington-school-of-ballet-and-the-washington-ballet
Barbara’s husband, Sam Folsom
https://www.sofmag.com/one-of-the-last-living-wwii-marine-fighter-pilots/
Balanchine with Pauline Goddard, Maria Tallchief and Mary Ellen Moylan Hanks
http://www.balanchine.org/balanchine/01/bio2.html
Life Magazine cover with Ruth Ann Koesun and Melissa Hayden (1947)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/136233957458308427/?lp=true
Melissa Hayden posing
https://alchetron.com/Melissa-Hayden-(dancer)#-
Melissa Hayden in flight
https://jewishcurrents.org/august-9-the-prima-ballerina/
Enrica Soma during her ballet career; photo by Philippe Halsman (mid-1940s)
http://nataliesarthouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/enrica-soma-photographs.html
Enrica “Ricki” Soma, photo by Philippe Halsman (1946)
https://lauramcphee.tumblr.com/post/44796027984/ricki-soma-1946-philippe-halsman
Michael Kidd choreographing
https://www.ladancechronicle.com/remembering-the-legendary-michael-kidd/
Michael Kidd with Fred Astaire
https://www.ladancechronicle.com/remembering-the-legendary-michael-kidd/
John Kriza with Ruth Ann Koesun in Michael Kidd’s “On Stage” (1947)
https://seechicagodance.com/review/our-readers-write-remembering-ruth-ann
John Kriza in character
http://michaelminn.net/andros/biographies/kriza_john/
Ruth Ann Koesun and John Kriza in Michael Kidd’s On Stage (1947)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/333829391123916834/
Jerome Robbins, John Kriza, Michael Kidd in ABT’s Fancy Free (1944)
https://ballet.blogberth.com/category/john-kriza/
Alicia Alonso
https://revistarevol.com/tag/fernando-alonso/
Alicia Alonso in Giselle, photo: Prensa Latina archive
http://www.ahora.cu/en/culture-en/1888-us-dance-museum-exhibits-alicia-alonso-s-photos-in-giselle
Alicia Alonso as Carmen, original photo from ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry)
https://www.voicesforcuba.com/?lightbox=dataItem-iy3t5vfw9
Jerome Robbins immersed in imaginative focus (circa early 1940’s)
https://waldina.com/2018/10/11/happy-birthday-jerome-robbins/
Sir Frederick Ashton in a photo by Jane Bown (1970)
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/mar/02/dance-frederick-ashton
Anna Pavlova with pet swan Jack (1927)
https://3wings.tumblr.com/post/27243835916
Bronislava Nijinska, circa 1930’s
https://vk.com/albums-3955633?z=photo-3955633_311337135%2Fphotos-3955633
Isadora Duncan, early 1900’s
http://www.livingly.com/Badass+Women+Who+Changed+The+World/articles/osqm8NDFzgU/Isadora+Duncan
Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch in photo opp for Swan Lake at Ballet Theatre (circa late 1940’s); photo by Maurice Seymour
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/260294053446147639/
Nora Kaye with Hugh Laing in (likely) Antony Tudor’s Romeo and Juliet at Ballet Theatre in NYC (c.1947)
https://bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/source/catalog/auction/5233/lot/131845/foo?lang=en
Anna Pavlova and Michael Mordkin in the Russian Dance
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw207134/Anna-Pavlova-and-Michael-Mordkin-performing-the-Russian-Dance
Michael Mordkin, from The Rucker Archive
http://theruckerarchive.com/projects/michael-mordkin-the-rucker-archive/
Diana Adams with Arthur Mitchell in George Balanchine’s Agon; photo by Martha Swope from Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (c.1957)
https://www.pointemagazine.com/balanchines-guys-jacques-damboise-2530604326.html
New York City Ballet rehearsal of Balanchine’s Agon with Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell; photo by Martha Swope (1957)
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d3975920-4e90-0133-7a93-00505686d14e
George Balanchine and the legendary composer Igor Stravinsky rehearse Agon in a photo by Martha Swope/ TimePix (1957)
http://www.balanchine.org/balanchine/01/bio4.html
Tommy Rall and Ann Miller in Kiss Me Kate
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/451063718898830668/?lp=true
Donald Saddler (standing) with Robert Morse in 1973; photo by Neal Boenzi of The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/arts/dance/donald-saddler-dancer-and-choreographer-on-broadway-dies-at-96-.html
Andre Eglevsky in a photo by Carl Van Vechten (1944); image from Marquette University Archives https://www.flickr.com/photos/27772396@N07/5053974027/in/album-72157613749957195/
Andre Eglevsky with Maria Tallchief, Diana Adams, and Tanaquil LeClerq at New York City Ballet (circa 1950’s)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/395331673511548514/?lp=true
Message Board: Looking for Barbara Cole
https://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=993414#3800639