Alanova
| Alanova | |
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| Born | Alice Allan 26 July 1902 Seattle, USA |
| 💀Died | 21 December 1965 (aged 63) Venice, Italy21 December 1965 (aged 63) |
| Other names | Kyra Alanova |
| 💼 Occupation |
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| 📆 Years active | 1929–1945 |
Alanova, also known as Kyra Alanova, Allanova, Alice di Robilant, Alicia Alanova, Alisa Allanova, Kyra Deakin, Kyra Hubbell, Kyra Bolm or Alice Allan (Seattle, 26 July 1902 – Venice, 21 December 1965), was an American ballet dancer, choreographer and actress.
Life
Born in Seattle, USA, to a Russian father who emigrated in the early 1900s, she became the stepdaughter of Adolf Bolm[1].
She followed her stepfather's footsteps in the field of ballet, joining Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (mentioned in the programs as Allanova) from 1918 to 1924. From 1922 she started acting in several Broadway[2] and London stage productions, with the name of Kyra Alanova.
Active in Paris in the 1930s, she was portrayed by Kees van Dongen in several paintings ("Portrait of Miss Alanova", "Jeune fille aux pieds nus"). They probably had an affair.[3]
At the end of the 1930s, when in Italy for a tour in the most important theatres, she met Count Andrea di Robilant, a movie producer; the two married shortly after, and Alanova worked in Italy for a few years.
Introduced by her husband to the world of cinema, she made her debut in the role of Countess Della Rovere in Giuliano de' Medici by Ladislao Vajda, filmed in the Pisorno Studios in Tirrenia, the first of a series of five films, the last of which was directed by Alberto Lattuada in La freccia nel fianco from the novel by Luciano Zuccoli.
With the end of the war, Alanova left the cinema and resumed her activity as a choreographer in various dance shows until 1946.
She married the American dance critic Irving Deakin.[4]
Cofounder in 1958 of the World-Wide Information Services, Inc., a private news agency specializing in business news, she died in New York City on September 3rd, 1965[5].
Performances
- 1919: La Boutique fantasque (music by Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Ottorino Respighi, choreography: Léonide Massine), Djaghilev's Ballets Russes company, London, Alhambra Theatre, June 5, 1919[6]
- 1919: The Three-Cornered Hat (music by Manuel de Falla, choreography: Léonide Massine), Djaghilev's Ballets Russes company, London, Alhambra Theatre, July 22, 1919[7]
- 1920: Le chant du Rossignol (music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography: Léonide Massine), Paris, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, February 2, 1920[8]
- 1920, 1924: Ballet de l'astuce féminine or Cimarosiana (music by Domenico Cimarosa, choreography: Léonide Massine), Paris, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, May 27, 1920[9] and Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 8, 1924[10]
- 1920: Le sacre du Printemps (music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography: Léonide Massine), Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, December 14, 1920[11]
- 1921: Chout (music by Sergei Prokofiev, choreography: Tadeusz Sławiński and supervision by Mikhail Larionov), Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, May 17, 1921[12]
- 1921: Petrushka (music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography: Michel Fokine), Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, May 19, 1921[13] and Madrid, Teatro Real, April 1, 1921[14]
- 1921: The Sleeping Beauty (music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, choreography: Marius Petipa), London, Alhambra Theatre, November 2, 1921[15]
- 1922: The Wedding of the Sleeping Beauty (music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, choreography: Marius Petipa), Paris, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, May 18, 1922[16]
- 1922: Les noces (music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography: la Nijinska), Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, June 13, 1923[17]
- 1923: Les noces (music by Igor Stravinsky, choreography: la Nijinska), Paris, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, June 13, 1923[18]
- 1924: [[Bronislava_Nijinska#Les_Tentations_de_la_Bergère_[Temptations_of_the_shepherdess]_(1924)|Les_Tentations_de_la_Bergère]] (music by Monteclair, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 3, 1924[19]
- 1924: Le medicin malgre lui (music by Charles Gounod, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 5, 1924[20]
- 1924: Les biches (music by Francis Poulenc, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 6, 1924[21]
- 1924: Les fâcheux (music by Modest Mussorgsky, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, January 19, 1924[22]
- 1924: La Nuit sur le Mont chauve (music by Georges Auric, choreography: la Nijinska), Monaco, Théâtre de Monte Carlo, April 13, 1924[23]
- 1924: Le train bleu (music by Darius Milhaud, choreography: la Nijinska), Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, June 20, 1924[24]
- Rerefal, Balletti Alanova, Roma 1944
- Tiepolesco, di V. Tommasini, choreography: Alanova (also: leading role), Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, scenery and costumes by Enrico Prampolini, 1945[25].
- Ma mère l'oye (music by Maurice Ravel, music directed by Alfredo Casella, choreography: Alanova), Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, 1945
- Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (music by Claudio Monteverdi, music directed by Franco Capuana, choreography: Alanova, scenery and costumes by Toti Scialoja), 1945.
Filmography
Features:
- Escort Girl (1941) as Flamenco Dancer (uncredited)
- Giuliano de' Medici, regia di Ladislao Vajda (1941)
- La zia smemorata, regia di Ladislao Vajda (1941)
- Le due tigri, regia di Giorgio Simonelli (1942)
- Canal Grande, regia di Andrea Di Robilant (1943)
- La freccia nel fianco, regia di Alberto Lattuada e Mario Costa (1945)
Bibliography
- Enrico Prampolini (a cura di Palma Bucarelli e Maurizio Calvesi) edizioni Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, 1961
- Alberto Cesare Alberti, Il teatro nel fascismo, Buzzoni, 1974
- Francesco Savio, Ma l'amore no, Sonzogno Milano 1975.
- Carla Lonzi, Radici tra la scena e le arti figurative dalla fine dell' 800, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1995
- Stefano Masi, Enrico Lancia, Stelle d'Italia, Gremese Editore, Roma, 2000
External links
Alanova on IMDB
Kyra Alanova portraits in the English National Portrait Gallery
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Notes
- ↑ American National Biography - Volume 3, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 137
- ↑ See records in Playbill.com. She performed also with a young Humphrey Bogart in Jack McCauley's Nerves, in 1924
- ↑ Art Russe, Druot auction catalogue, Oct 26th, 2016
- ↑ As referenced in [https://www.wnyc.org/story/first-anniversary-program-the-nutcracker-suite/ The NYPR Archive Collections. First Anniversary Program: The Nutcracker Suite], archive audio footage from [NYPL Jerome Robbins Dance Division]
- ↑ Chicago Tribune, 3 September 1965. Archived from the original.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 327.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 327.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 328.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 328.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 336.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 329.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 329.
- ↑ notice de spectacle n. FRBNF39684198, Catalog of the French National Library.
- ↑ notice de spectacle n. FRBNF41375286, Catalog of the French National Library.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 330-1.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 332.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 333.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 333.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 333.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 335.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 335.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 336.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 337.
- ↑ I balletti russi di Djaghilev tra storia e mito, parte II, Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, edited by Patrizia Veroli e Gianfranco Vinaj, page 337.
- ↑ Dizionario biografico Treccani, alla voce Vincenzo Tommasini
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