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Title: "Giselle", Dance Theater of Harlem
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Jarzomb, Leo
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated May 11, 1985 reads, "Judy Tyrus leaps in a pas de deux during Dance Theatre [sic] of Harlem's restaging of "Giselle" opening night Thursday at the Pasadena Civic. To make ballet relevant to a black ballet company, the story has been changed from its usual setting in a medieval Rhineland peasant village to a prosperous farm in Louisiana."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00087925
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b083_f5_i13
CARL0004976504
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26802
Subject: Tyrus, Judy
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Giselle (Choreographic work)
Ballet companies--United States
Ballet dancers--United States
Ballet--California--Los Angeles
Dance--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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