Maria Dare Dance History Collection

The dancers are wearing rompers dating it prior to 1950. 

It is in the 2nd floor studio of the Selling-Hirsch building.

 

 

 

 

Two experts have said the Dance Master is Anton Dolin. 

One expert has said it is not.

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3  Jenne Van Zile

4 Claire Van Zile

6 Shirley Simpson

7  Dorothy Newcombe

8 Gayle Gann

9  Marian Van Antweurp

10 Mimi Freuert

13 Dick Cahill

14 Joe Benway

15 Michel Martin

16 Estelle Robinson

 

 

Dick relocated to Los Angles to dance. He probably went with the group of Ballet House dancers  that included Maria, Sergei Dare, and Joan Smith

 

Little is known of Ben’s dancing career after parting with The Ballet House. Based on memorabilia donated to the Royal Gorge Regional Museum & History Center,Canon City, Colorado, Rachel Smith, Archives Librarian, was able to inform Zandance that Joe Benway, lived inNew Jersey for a time.  He moved to Canon City, Colorado, in the 1980s and passed away in 2007

 

Katherine went on to study dance in Los Angeles.  Then she opened a successful ballet school in Eugene, Oregon.

Joan’s daughter informed Zandance, “The person standing between Kathrine

Scott and slightly behind Maria Dare is my \mother Joan Smith.  She went to Los Angeles with Maria and Sergei.  She danced at the Eugene Loring studio and auditioned for ABT and became a dancer with ABT [American Ballet Theatre] and went on the first tour of Europe after WW2.   I also danced at Ballet house as Susan Stearns and auditioned and  danced with the Bolshoi Ballet in Ballet School." 

Revised:  April 2022

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