Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing (1940) photographed by Carl Van Vechten
Antony Tudor was a British ballet choreographer, dancer and teacher and is considered to be, along with George Balanchine, one of the principle transformers of ballet into a modern art. Hugh Laing is considered to be one of the most significant dramatic ballet dancers of the 20th century.
The pair began their artistic and personal collaboration in the mid-1930's and remained partners until Tudors death in 1987. There was a interruption to their relationship in 1947 when Laing married ballet dancer Diana Adams. They were divorced in 1953.
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‘La cigale’ (detail) by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, c. 1872.
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Second Punic War. Hannibal's Oath.
by Silvestre David Mirys
Second Punic War: Hannibal vows to fight Rome to the bitter end. Date 220 BC
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Returning to Paris, I had to pay. With rage in my heart and often tears in my eyes (the makeup artist Chakatouny lamented each morning my poor appearance, and couldn't make me look any better), I made one film — just one — to guarantee the freedom of a person I loved. I was ugly, terrible; everything in me refused to be. I still remember the look of my [screen] partner Raymond Rouleau (who knew Igor and the causes of my breakdown) studying me and trying in vain to give me a little encouragement!
— Edwige Feuillère reflecting on the making of Mam'zelle Bonaparte (1942) and aiding the escape of her fiancé (named here as Igor) from Nazi-occupied France
(From Les Feux de la mémoire by Edwige Feuillère, 1977. Translated by me. ♡)
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Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741–1807) • Portrait of a Woman as a Vestal Virgin • 1781-82
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‘In the Garden’ by Gaston de La Touche (1854-1913)
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Funérailles de Victor Hugo - la veillée sous l’arc de triomphe (1885) by Georges Jules Victor Clairin.
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