Subject: Ballet dancers - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of dancers from a Santa Monica Civic Opera production of “The Marriage of Figaro.” The performers (one male and one female) danced in a ballet sequence from Act 3. They are standing onstage in front of a background set. They wear costumes evoking 18th century Spanish attire. He wears a coat, cravat, breeches, stockings and shoes with large decorative buckles. She wears a blouse with a lace-up bodice, full skirt and ballet flats. Opera performed at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica.
Date:: March 8, 1958-March 9, 1958
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Barbara Lee Tramutto dancing en pointe in toe shoes, Spanish-style dress with multi-layered skirt, choker necklace, and feathered hat or headdress, holding skirt in front of her, indoors with wall in background. The photograph was taken at the home of Adelbert Bartlett, located at 535 15th St., Santa Monica.
Date:: 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Andrea Karlsen, a native of Los Angeles, began her dance studies in New Zealand with Estelle Berre, then studied in Los Angeles with Bronislava Nijinska. After WWII, Nijinska took her to France to join Le Grand Ballets du Marquis de Cuevas, where she attained principal dancer status in 1953. She remained with the company until 1955. She and her husband, the dancer Paul Maure, founded the Ballet des Arts Company in La Canada in 1957.
Date:: 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: On a stage, in the foreground, are a child ballerina and accordion player. To the far right sits an ventriloquist Lucille S. King, on a couch with her dummy, and an actor, dressed as a clown, sits on the floor. Even father to the left, offstage, stand several women.
Date:: September 20, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image also appears as part of montage photograph uclamss_1300_3303
Date:: 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph of ballet dancer Andrea Karlsen posing in a romantic style tutu by the photographer Constantine.
Date:: [circa 1964]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Constantine, 1913-1982
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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