I. BALLET AND PHYSIQUE

Chapter 12. Dancers’ Physique

The following photographs have been chosen as all corresponding to the criteria already submitted, and yet as illustrating both similarity and diversity in physique. It is the diversity rather than the similarity that gives each dancer her distinctive appeal. Note for example the warm emotional quality of Baronova as opposed to the athletic strength of Maria Tallchief; Mary Ellen Moylan, petite and elegant; the sharply defined steel-like lines of Melissa Hayden; tall statuesque Beriosova, and Moira Shearer, lithe and gay; Markova, whose ethereal quality derives from her lightly built body and above all Mai got Fonteyn (frontispiece) giving in La Peri, the effect of an oriental vase, beautifully, delicately balanced, the artistic perfection of technique and physique.

Alicia Markova and Milorad Miskovitch Serge Lido

Irina Baronova Maurice Seymour	Mary Ellen Moylan Walter W. Owen
Maria Talichief Walter W. Owen	Melissa Haydkn
Tamara Toumanova (Gordon Anthony)	Svetlana Beriosova (Paul Wilson)

Janine Charrat (Lido)	Brian Shaw (Baron)

Moira  Shearer (Gordon Anthony)

David Blair (Gordon Anthony)

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