Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
2014 · 91 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 108 VOTES · DIR. Nancy Buirski
Overview
Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike. With her elongated, race-horse physique, she became the new prototype for the great George Balanchine. Because of her extraordinary movement and unique personality on stage, she became a muse to two of the greatest choreographers in dance, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She eventually married Balanchine, and Robbins created his famous version of Afternoon of a Faun for her. She had love, fame, adoration, and was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. At the age of 27, she was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again. The ballet world has been haunted by her story ever since.
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00:02:40 Tanny is a myth.
00:07:56 She longed to break out of this life in a glass
00:10:54 I then moved to Paris and wasn't there when she got sick.
00:13:36 the trip to America he met Alexandra Danilova.
00:16:45 Death disappears and so does her lover who is carrying her corpse.
00:19:49 way, he was always looking for the special dancers.
00:23:53 She wanted to please, to achieve something.
00:28:08 Jerry was certainly in love with her in a way.
00:32:30 I got back to Rome yesterday and immediately
00:35:20 Lots of children, fir trees, snow, everything for the Christmas season.
00:38:25 take the train to the next venue, Tanny was missing.
00:41:24 Some had two vaccinations.
00:46:57 I raised the headboard of my bed further, so I'll
00:49:23 It couldn't always go on like this, that you
00:52:35 Most here have polio or are paraplegic.
00:55:25 but you should never give up until you die, right?
00:58:31 They weren't rigid, they were flexible.
01:02:50 and can finally make it dance the way I've always wanted it to dance."
01:07:18 Tanny said, "He needs to be free. He needs to be free."
01:11:02 I thought, "I can't stop people,
01:14:10 Hold her tight. Remember, you want it and you don't want it.
01:17:22 She never said Jerry did or said this or that that
01:21:19 for George Balanchine, crowned by love for him, never fails at Tanny.
01:26:49 I was home."
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