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A pleasure to share this extract from DANCE OF THE EARTH with Rose a young woman in the Alhambra theatre's corps de ballet.
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A music break for sanity's sake #music #genius #revolutionary #russia #balletsrusses #classical #orchestral youtu.be/pPYWZYhWuGw?...

Cose belle...

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Read an #excerpt from Dance of the Earth by Anna M. Holmes.

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Loving early reviews from a broad range of readers. DANCE OF THE EARTH not just for theatre folk. 🙂
#historicalfiction #dancehistory #familysaga #firstworldwar #balletsrusses

Book Spotlight: Dance of the Earth by Anna M Holmes From world stages to theatres of war, Dance of the Earth is a sweeping family saga. Set against the backdrops of London’s gilded Alhambra...

Book Spotlight: Dance of the Earth by Anna M Holmes. Why not visit my blog and have a look?
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Brüder im Geiste, Sergei Pawlowitsch Djagilew. #Cimitero #SanMichele #BalletsRusses #Stravinsky

Ida Rubinstein Russian dancer, actress and producer Ida Lvovna Rubinstein was BOTD in 1883. Born in Kharkov in the Russian Empire to a wealthy Jewish banking family, her parents died when she was a child, leaving…

The fabulous Russian dancer, actress and producer Ida Rubinstein was BOTD in 1883. #idarubenstein #bornonthisday #supergays #balletsrusses

If I were to write Dance of the Earth as a fairytale the beginning might read like this: In 1875 a baby is abandoned at the Alhambra Theatre’s stage door. Named Rose this pretend princess grows up in a palatial music hall...
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#Writingcommunity Would you enjoy behind the scenes peeks? For this and more, I invite you to join my mailing list for #historicalfiction Dance of the Earth launch, set in the #BalletsRusses era. Let's Go! Please DM me with your email.

Book Launch. Book cover, and invitation to join mailing list.

Would you enjoy behind the scenes peeks? For this and more, I invite you to join my mailing list for #historicalfiction Dance of the Earth launch, set in the #BalletsRusses era. Let's Go! DM me with your email.
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I have loved research for my #historicalfiction Dance of the Earth. Initially set in London's Alhambra Theatre music hall where Giovannini Pitteri was lead ballerina.
The shapes of our star dancers has changed, but our love of stories that transport has not. Agree?
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I have loved research for my #historicalfiction Dance of the Earth. Initially set in London's Alhambra Theatre music hall where Giovannini Pitteri was lead ballerina.

The shapes of our star dancers has changed, but our love of stories that transport has not.
#musichall #ballet #BalletsRusses.

Léonide Massine Russian dancer and choreographer Léonide Massine was BOTD in 1896. Born in Moscow in the Russian Empire, he studied acting and dancing at the Imperial School, and joined the Bolshoi Ballet. In 1913…

Russian dancer and choreographer Léonide Massine was BOTD in 1896. The teen lover of ballet impresario #SergeiDiaghilev, he became lead dancer and choreographer of the Ballets Russes. #leonidemassine #supergays #bornonthisday #balletsrusses

What's behind a title? Did it mean anything to you? Over the coming weeks I will post behind the scenes glimpses of my upcoming novel DANCE OF THE EARTH.
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Story time! What's behind the name, DANCE OF THE EARTH? Over the coming weeks I will be posting behind the scenes glimpses of my upcoming novel. Did you know?
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OTD in early British television: 28 June 1937 - Illuminations John Wyver writes: The afternoon and evening of Monday 28 June 1937 saw one of pre-war television’s most innovative performance programmes. Artists who worked regularly in the Alexandra Palace studios...

For more please click through to the full blog post

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"L'Après-Midi d'un Faune" premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris #OnThisDay in 1912; the #ballet was choreographed by #VaslavNijinsky for the #BalletsRusses with #music by #ClaudeDebussy — a great moment in the history of music
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Sergei Diaghilev Russian ballet producer Sergei Diaghilev was BOTD in 1872. Born in the Chudovsky District to an aristocratic family, he started composing music in his teens and studied at the St Petersburg Imperia…

Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev, creator and producer of the Ballets Russes, was BOTD in 1872. #sergeidiaghilev #supergays #bornonthisday #balletsrusses

2/2 of the man were formed when I wrote my biography of Lydia Lopokova, the Russian ballerina with whom SC was haplessly in love. 'Sam longs to soar', Lydia wrote, but his little feet follow him.'
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Lovely mention of #CraftingtheBalletsRusses 🩰

"The catalog of "Crafting the Ballet Russes" is a model of design excellence".

See the #ArtEyewitness blog for their 2024 round-up:

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#BalletsRusses #artbooks #dance #ballet

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Book Ideas for the Dancer in Your Life - Pointe Magazine These books published in 2024 spotlight various sectors of the dance world spanning dance history and romance to choreographic insights.

Delighted to see "Crafting the Ballets Russes" included in #PointeMagazine "Book Ideas for the Dancer in Your Life" list - thank you! 🙏🏼💖🩰

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"Crafting the Ballets Russes" in #ArtEyewitness
"...the Morgan exhibition directs our attention to the actual manuscripts of the musical scores Diaghilev commissioned for the #BalletsRusses."
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📸Natalia Goncharova’s 1915 curtain design for Les Noces

A review of the stunning "Crafting the Ballets Russes" exhibition, in #brooklynrail brooklynrail.org/2024/09/arts...
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📸Bolero in rehearsal, 1928. Studio des Champs Élysées, Paris. @morganlibrary #ballet #balletsrusses #balletsrehearsal

Picasso’s cubist costume designs for the Managers in the ballet “Parade” (1917)

Happy Wednesday
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the people on the right are from Dyagilev’s ballets! i found a very light pen from middle school times and i loved it sm

#sketch #ballpointpen #sketchbook #art #drawing #balletsrusses #dyagilev

🩰 Sharing these stunning spreads from "Crafting the Ballets Russes: Music, Dance, Design: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection". Enjoy! 💖

#SundayShare #BalletsRusses #Ballet #beautifulbooks #artbooks #TheMorganLibrary #Dance #Music #Diaghilev

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"L'Après-Midi d'un Faune"

"L'Après-Midi d'un Faune" premiered in Paris #OnThisDay in 1912; the #ballet was choreographed by #VaslavNijinsky for the #BalletsRusses with #music by #ClaudeDebussy — one of the great moments in the history of music & dance:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Lr...
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Bakst collage

Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg was born in Grodno (now Belarus) #OnThisDay in 1866, designing sets & #costumes for Sergei Diaghilev & the #BalletsRusses; #LéonBakst died in Paris in 1924 at the age of 58, but his brilliant designs live on to delight us...
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