Remember Roy Halston Frowick, the fashion designer? (Always referred to as ‘Halston’ in public print). Guy had lots of friends, among them Lauren Bacall, who called him ‘Halstie baby’. Homosexual men know how to build relationships with women who’ve got style and cash flow. Not sure how that works.

John Derbyshire was told about 15 years ago by someone working in the industry that the share of men in the audience who were homosexual was about 25%; the share of male dancers, 50%;’ and the share of choreographers, 100%. (Balanchine the obvious exception).

There is a perception that male ballet dancers are gay because a much higher percentage of them are than you would expect by chance. I don’t know the figures (I’m not sure anyone’s done a study) but I would say at least half. However, the ones who are heterosexual really have their pick of a bevy of gorgeous female dancers, the vast majority of whom are heterosexual (although often exhausted).

Tallchief & Nureyev — Flower Festival in Genzano — 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17GMUkiIuVo

Bujones & Makarova — The Black Swan, Pas de Deux, Pt. 1 — 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPth_TiVGE4

Fonteyn & Nureyev, Swan Lake — 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDIGDim_1xs

Somebody’s Top 15 Male Dancers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRMqK71i3fs

Of course to me, they’re all famous, because I used to follow ballet so closely and saw most of the prominent dancers of the twentieth century (especially from mid-century on).

But, speaking more generally of ballet fans, Tallchief still has a certain cachet, perhaps because of the Native American angle. Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland are still very famous and both are American. The Russian element definitely enhanced fame, however, particularly for defectors (Makarova, Barishnikov, and Nureyev were all defectors). Defectors made a big splash, and they were all extremely fine dancers as well. Very few dancers who remained in Russia became international stars with the exception of two, Ulanova and Plisetskaya, Fonteyn is also still quite famous in the ballet world and perhaps even beyond, although that may be because of her long partnership with Nureyev.

By the way, I knew Mia Slavenska when I was a child. Perhaps “knew” is too strong a word. But I used to take class with her—in a rather small class given by a man named Vincenzo Celli in Manhattan. The class was VERY eclectic in terms of who attended—obviously, if I was there as a child and Slavenska was taking the same class. Her daughter Maria, who was a few years older than I and at the time not a talented dancer, also took the class. I wasn’t sure that memory was correct (the name of the daughter), but checking Wiki just now I see that she did have a daughter named Maria.

Celli was quite the character.

You answered your own question..

Not russian, erased…

Given all the publishing houses, film houses, social influence and so on and huge numbers, they dont deem it “interesting” enough to talk about, print about, etc.

ie. erased socially…

Barishnikov – Russian born in latvia, defected soviet latvia [changer]
Nureyev – Russian
Nijinsky – Russian

but where did Frederic Franklin go to?
Ballet Legend Frederic Franklin to be honored on Oct 14th
Here is a family friends photo of him
http://ballettothepeople.com/wp2/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Scheherezade-600×732.jpg

The dance world lost a ballet great of the 20th century earlier this year, and American Ballet Theatre, with whom he performed into his 90’s, is throwing a big bash in his honor. The public is invited to celebrate the extraordinary life of the much-loved Frederic Franklin – known in the dance world as Freddie – on Monday, October 14th, at 4:30 p.m., in the Concert Hall at LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts.

The memorial program includes film tributes and performances by several ballet companies with whom Franklin had close ties – including excerpts from Coppélia by Richmond Ballet, Gaîté Parisienne by Tulsa Ballet, and Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo by American Ballet Theatre. Luminaries including Arthur Mitchell, Ivan Nagy and Ben Stevenson, will share their memories of the charismatic dancer and ballet master, who not only thrilled audiences but played a major role in ensuring the vitality of the art form across America, through his artistic direction of several regional companies, his sensitive staging of ballets both new and in revival, and his generous, spirited coaching of several generations of dancers.

My most favorite friend photographer of the family: Maurice Seymour
Also Russian, but left at the turn of the century because of dislike of Jews in russia
[Him and his brother got their start with Amos and Andy taking shots]

he explained a lot of this for me…
not that you would care of his words, as i have tried!!

Seymour on Ballet: 101 Photographs
Maurice Seymour
Published by Pellegrini & Cudahy

The portraits in the State Library of NSW contain a clue in the visible black frames around them – frames that may have been placed to enable Dupain to make copies for publicity or programs when Col. de Basil’s Ballets Russes came to Australia in the 1930s.

The Ballets Russes troupes brought with them a range of portraits of dancers and choreographers from overseas, among them the glamour shots of the American photographer, Maurice Seymour, and the moody photos of the English photographer, Gordon Anthony.

Two of Nijinksa’s ballets were performed in Australia, Les Cents Baisers in all three tours and Danses slaves et tziganes (Gypsy dances) performed in the second tour.

a dear friend of my father, and family…
you would not know much of the ballet of this period if it wasnt for him
I nearly married his daughter , sister was great friends with
we were two arts and sciences families… me bronx science
it was Maurice that tricked us into a Buffet clarinet at “Ponte” who was a famous broadway music man

he loved chess and did have an eye for ladies (boy do i have stories)
oh, if you are tired of looking at his ballet shots, he also did head shots for lots of very famous people through the ages, and even tons of very famous but forgotten burlesque dancers.. like “Camille”…

anyway, if you over emphasise russia, and push down USA
you get to push pop in hegelian fashion and erase the contributions of key people
but then you create a memory of a world that never existed and so, replaces reality for most
in this way, you can also see the same treatment of:

Irina Baronova?
Maria Tallchief?
Jack Cole? (modern dance)
Paula Tennyson?
Ruth Ann Koesun?

all kind of erased cause no one will talk about them, as with tons of other things!!
especially if your from a small no account place…
Barishnikov is from Latvia, a country known for its arts and Ballet before Soviets.

and then you have my favorite friend who died, odetta…
but i was surprised… as neo did not mention where her name was from
Maurice Seymour. Mia as Odette in “Swan Lake”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pbssocal/15095260610

and then say… who is Mia?
anyone remember Margot Fontayne?
a lot more than Mia Slavenska… erased…
she is:
a Croatian-born American prima ballerina. She formed the Slavenska Ballette Variante and, later, the Theatre Ballette. In 1954, she became the prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.

Im an expert on the erased…
I am one of them…

[all of the ballet people here were photographed by Maurice Seymour… my family will remember him always!]

Villilla really was—and is—an excellent athlete. See this.

There was no such day.