Your back, Natasha!
Photograph
Your back, Natasha!
Ballet – From Grand Jeté to Jive
1958
Gelatin silver print, printed 1961
Image: 9 3/8 × 7 3/8 in. (23.8 × 18.8 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0043
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, C: (Ballet) 8/61 (14): "YOUR BACK, NATASHA!": after the Five Positions, the \ "plie". First year students must learn the rudiments \ before they are allowed to get up on their "points". \ Soaring movements such as the graceful "arabesque" \ and the flying "grand jete" are still far off. \ Credit: CORNELL CAPA © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
