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[Boxing Day for dancers]

Title
[Boxing Day for dancers] [graphic].
Publication
[185-? or later]

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Description
2 prints : wood engraving?, color; 24 x 35 cm.
Summary
Two prints contrasting different moments in the lives of female ballet dancers of the nineteenth century. In the print captioned "Boxing Day ten a.m.," they appear to be gathering for a rehearsal. Still dressed in street clothes, they mill about the stage. Only one woman, at far right, raises her leg in a grand battement as though warming up. The man behind them, pointing to something outside the frame, may be a member of the stage crew. In "Boxing Day ten p.m.," the women have metamorphosed into glamorously costumed dancers onstage, apparently captured in performance.
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Genre/Form
Wood engravings.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
Source (note)
  • Lillian Moore.
Biography (note)
  • Boxing Day in Britain and other Commonwealth nations is the day after Christmas, December 26. Its name is often said to derive from the Christmas boxes (tips or gifts) given to servitors and underlings on that day. Though others may have celebrated it as a secular holiday, it was apparently not a day off for nineteenth-century theatrical performers.
Call Number
*MGZFX Anon Box 1-2
OCLC
825122529
Title
[Boxing Day for dancers] [graphic].
Imprint
[185-? or later]
Biography
Boxing Day in Britain and other Commonwealth nations is the day after Christmas, December 26. Its name is often said to derive from the Christmas boxes (tips or gifts) given to servitors and underlings on that day. Though others may have celebrated it as a secular holiday, it was apparently not a day off for nineteenth-century theatrical performers.
Local Note
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Source
Gift; Lillian Moore.
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Added Author
Moore, Lillian. Donor
Research Call Number
*MGZFX Anon Box 1-2
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