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...when other troupes staged his works, recalls his onetime assistant Barbara Horgan, director of the George Balanchine Trust, which licenses performances by other companies. He formed intense bonds with his favored female dancers, making them his muses. He married four of them - Tamara Geva, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil LeClercq - and had liaisons with others. Male or female, close or remote, most of his dancers revered their ?Mr. B.? ?I can?t say that I knew him well,? says former NYCB dancer Ib Andersen, artistic director of Ballet Arizona. ?But his ballets are part of me, his musicality...
...DIED. TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ, 71, lithe-limbed ballerina who, while on tour in Copenhagen with husband George Balanchine in 1956, contracted polio, which left her paralyzed at 27 at the peak of her talent and fame; of pneumonia; in New York City. In an eerie foreshadow, Balanchine in 1944 had choreographed a ballet in which he cast himself as a character named Polio and his incomparably elegant muse Le Clercq as a victim who becomes paralyzed...
...return to the New York City Ballet. Nearly six years ago, the willowy star was that rarest of rarities, a classical dancer with a chorus girl's legs. She was also Director George Balanchine's special protegee, rumored to follow Tamara Geva, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil Le Clereq as the fifth Mrs. B. Then suddenly she married a fellow company member, Paul Mejia, 27, and, in the face of Balanchine's obvious displeasure, went into exile with the Maurice Bejart company in Brussels. However, three months ago, Balanchine, 70, was professionally spurned by her most...
Divorced. By George Balanchine, 65 master choreographer and artistic director of the New York City Ballet Company for 20 years: Tanaquil LeClerq, 39, onetime prima ballerina who, after becoming Balanchine's fifth wife, was forced to give up dancing forever when she contracted polio in Copenhagen in 1956; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility; after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...Producer Max Liebman made a brave try at proving that it is still-partially, at least-a man's world with a tuneful tribute to the music of George Gershwin. But, again, the girls-led by Singers Ethel Merman, Toni Arden and Camilla Williams, Dancers Tanaquil LeClerq, Diana Adams and Patricia Wilde -practically elbowed the male performers off the stage...