#nini theilade

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Nini Theilade, Indonesian ballet dancer, adopting a ballet pose for a studio portrait, in September 1933. (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Nini Theilade

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The dancer Nini Theilade in "A Midsummer nNght’s Dream "directed by William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt, 1935.

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Nini Theilade dancing, ca. 1932 - by Hans Robertson (1883 - 1950), German

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Extras pose for a costume test on the set of Max Reinhardt's 1935 adaptation of Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and other shots from the production.  The Warner Bros film featured an all-star cast, including James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Victor Jory, and Ian Hunter. Nini Theilade, playing a fairy in the last picture, lived to 102, dying in 2018--and was outlived only by Olivia de Havilland (who survived until 104, dying in 2020).

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Nini Theilade dansant,1932,ph H.Robertson

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Nini Theilade in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1935

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Nini Theilade in Bacchanale, 1939.

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Nini Theilade / breakdance (2022)

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Max Reinhardt, he discovered me, so to speak, because he saw one of these recitals, and he said, ‘Well, I don’t know anything about dancing, but this person doesn’t only dance, she acts.’

- Nini Theilade (1912-2018)

Nini Theilade was a Danish ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher. She won wide acclaim for her dancing in the fabled 1935 film version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” then performed with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo during its tour of the United States as World War II was beginning.

Reinhardt put her in the version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that he staged in England and at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and then in the film that he and William Dieterle directed. Ms. Theilade was the lead fairy among Titania’s attendants.

The film had a starry, somewhat improbable cast that included Mickey Rooney as Puck, James Cagney as Bottom, Dick Powell as Lysander and, in her first film, Olivia de Havilland as Hermia. Critics differed on whether it succeeded, but virtually everyone agreed that the dancing was a high point, especially Ms. Theilade’s work.

In a 2013 article in The Observer of London, the dance writer Luke Jennings put the fairy ballet at No. 5 on his list of the 10 best dance numbers in film, singling out Nini Theilade.

From 1938-40, she played many leading roles in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo which were choreographed for her by Léonide Massine. They included Poverty in Nobilissima Visione and Venus in Bacchanale with costumes by Salvador Dalí. She performed as a guest at New York's Metropolitan Opera dancing to Debussy's Clouds.

From 1969 to 1978, she founded a ballet academy in Thurø with a ballet company that toured Europe. She also began her involvement as ballet instructor at Odense Theatre's school which was to last 30 years. After running into financial difficulties at Thurø, she and her second husband, Arne Buchter-Larsen, accepted an invitation to set up a three-year course of study in Lyon, the Académie de Ballet Nini Theilade. She left Lyon in 1990 at the age of 75 to return to Denmark where she continued to be active in drama and dance productions.[2] In particular, she was to work for a further 20 years as dance instructor at Oure Folk School on the island of Funen. She died on 13 February 2018 at the age of 102

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Fra Nini Theilades egen turné (1931-32), iført Kjeld Abells kostume. (foto: Arkiv Skolerne i Oure Sport & Performning Arts)

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Nini Theilade

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“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.”

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)

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Nini Theilade

biographie illustrée (vidéo) fr

extrait "Le songe d'une nuit d'été" Max Reinhardt / William Dieterle 1935

Nini Theilade : https://ninitheilade.com/

Académie de ballet Nini Theilade

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Nini Theilade, 1938

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Nini Theilade as Venus in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's Bacchanale, choreographed by Leonide