The Espinosas: A Dancing Dynasty, 1825–1992

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes 1. “Léon Espinosa (1825–1903): The Story of a Great Dancer,” told by his son, Edouard Espinosa, The Dancing Times, December 1942, pp. 104–6. 2. Quoted in Lillian Moore, “Léon Espinosa in America,” The Dancing Times, March 1951, pp. 333–5. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. August Bournonville, My Theatre Life, trans. Patricia McAndrew (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1979), p. 622. 6. “Biographical Sketch of Espinosa, dancer at the Theatre Royal Princess's,” The Era, February 3, 1861. Written expressly for The Era. 7. Gayle I. Kassing, “Dance on the St. Louis Stage, 1850–1870,” doctoral dissertation, Texas Woman's University, 1978. 8. Quoted in Moore, “Léon Espinosa in America.” 9. Ibid. 10. British Ballet Organisation (BBO), Espinosa Archives. 11. “Biographical Sketch,” The Era, February 3, 1861. 12. Norwich Mercury, May 31, 1856. 13. Edouard Espinosa, Obituary of [his mother] Madame Léon Espinosa, The Dancer, 1931. 14. Bournonville, My Theatre Life, p. 611. 15. The Era, September 29, 1867. 16. The Era, December 29, 1867. 17. Karl Fyodorovich Valtz, Sixty-five Years in the Theatre, quoted in Vera Krasovskaya, The Russian Ballet. 18. Natalia Roslavleva, Era of the Russian Ballet (London: Gollancz, 1966), p. 94. 19. Ibid., p. 96. 20. Valtz, Sixty-five Years. 21. Vera Krasovskaya, Problems of Literature (in Russian, 1959). 22. Edouard Espinosa, And Then He Danced: The Life of Espinosa by Himself, presented by Rachel Ferguson (London: S. Low, Marston, 1948), p. 213. 23. Jules Rivière, My Musical Life and Recollections (London: S. Low, Marston, 1893). 24. And Then He Danced, pp. 1–2. 25. Jane Pritchard, “Collaborative Creations for the Alhambra and the Empire,” Dance Chronicle, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2001, p. 79. 26. Brian Rees, Camille Saint-Saëns (London: Chatto & Windus, 1999), pp. 225–6. 27. Edward Gordon Craig, Henry Irving (London: J. M. Dent, 1930). 28. A. J. Pischl, “The Madison Square Garden Ballet,” Dance Magazine, April 1968. 29. Ibid. 30. And Then He Danced, p. 35. 31. Ibid. 32. Ibid., p. 107. 33. The Stage, December 24, 1903. 34. Walter James Macqueen-Pope, Nights of Gladness (London: Hutchinson, 1956), p. 169. 35. Hesketh Pearson, The Last Actor Managers (London: White Lion, 1950). 36. Kathrine Sorley Walker, Ninette de Valois: Idealist without Illusions (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987), p. 4. 37. And Then He Danced, p. 127. 38. Ivor Guest, Ballet in Leicester Square: The Alhambra and the Empire (London: Dance Books, 1992), p. 143. 39. Phyllis Bedells, My Dancing Days (London: Phoenix House, 1954), p. 76. 40. Quoted in Jeremy Dibble, Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). 41. Pearson, The Last Actor Managers. 42. Ernest Short, Theatrical Cavalcade (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942). 43. British Ballet Organisation, Espinosa Archives. 44. Bedells, My Dancing Days, p. 114. 45. And Then He Danced. 46. British Ballet Organisation, Espinosa Archives, unidentified and undated press notices in scrapbook. 47. Ibid. 48. The Dancing Times, September 1924. 49. Ibid., July 1925. 50. Morning Post (London), September 4, 1934. 51. British Ballet Organisation, Espinosa Archives. 52. Ballet, January 1947, p. 17. 53. Sydney Morning Herald, August 24, 1918. 54. Letter in The Dancing Times, August 1921, pp. 356–7. 55. Articles in The Dancing Times, July 1921, pp. 781–2 and 785–87, respectively. 56. Article in The Dancing Times, August 1921, pp. 861–2. 57. The Dancing Times, April 1949. 58. Alicia Markova, quoted by Tony Barlow, “Dame Alicia Markova,” British Ballet Organisation, 70th anniversary, 1930–2000 (souvenir book). 59. Letter from P. J. S. Richardson to Edward Kelland Espinosa, August 29, 1958. British Ballet Organisation, Espinosa Archives. 60. Letter from Arthur Franks to Edward Kelland Espinosa, September 25, 1959. British Ballet Organisation, Espinosa Archives. 61. And Then He Danced, p. 66.