Last week was easy because I only had one day of classes, Friday, because of Golden Week holiday. A great thing happened when a first-year student who has practiced classical ballet for eleven years posted a comment on our Introduction to American Culture and Literature class blog in which she said that she was glad to have learned in our previous class about Maria Tallchief (1925-2013), a Native American who became the first great American prima ballerina, and that she had watched some Maria Tallchief videos on youtube, and was impressed. My student's comment inspired me to watch some Maria Tallchlief videos, and although so far I haven't found much of her dancing classics like Firebird, I have found some nice tribute videos, like the one below, and a great video of her pas de deux in Swanlake below:
I am happy that many more students are posting comments in my class blogs this year than last year.
And I wish I could watch a video of all of Maria Tallchief's Firebird performance that made her and the NY City ballet famous!
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