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Catherine Littlefield - A Life in Dance (Hardcover)
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While she is best remembered today as founder of the Philadelphia
Ballet and the director and driving force behind the famous
Littlefield School of Ballet, from which Balanchine drew the
nucleus for his School of American Ballet, Catherine Littlefield
(1905-51) and her oeuvre were in many ways emblematic of the full
representation of dance throughout entertainments of the first half
of the 20th century. From her early work as a teenager dancing for
Florenz Ziegfeld to her later work in choreographing extravagant
ice skating shows, a remarkable dance with 90 bicyclists for the
1940 World's Fair, and on television as resident choreographer for
The Jimmy Durante Show, Littlefield was amongst the first
choreographers to bring concert dance to broader venues, and her
legacy lives on today in her enduring influence on generations of
American ballet dancers. As the first biography of Littlefield,
Catherine Littlefield: A Life in Dance traces her life in full from
birth through childhood experiences dancing on the Academy of
Music's grand stage, and from her foundation of the groundbreaking
Philadelphia Ballet Company in 1935 to her later work in television
and beyond. Littlefield counted among her many glamorous friends
and colleagues writer Zelda Fitzgerald, conductor Leopold
Stokowski, and composer Kurt Weill. This biography also provides an
engrossing portrait of the remarkable Littlefield family, many of
whom were instrumental to Catherine's success. With the unflagging
support of her generous husband and indomitable mother, Littlefield
gave shape to the course of American ballet in the 20th century
long before Balanchine arrived in the United States.
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