Throwback Thursday and
Ellen Price
Ellen Juliette Collin Price de Plane came from a long line of performers in Denmark. Born
on June 21, 1841, she is a descendant of James Price, and English circus performer
whose granddaughter Juliette was the first ballerina to dance Giselle for the
Royal Danish Ballet. Ellen’s mother and father were principal dancers with
the company as well.
She trained at the
school of the Royal Danish Ballet from 1889-1895, and it was Ellen’s
performance in The Little Mermaid in 1909 that led her to model for Edvard
Eriksen’s famous statue of the same name. He only copied her face
because she refused to pose nude.
But posing for this
statue wasn’t Ellen Price’s only claim to fame. She was one of the first
ballerinas to have her dancing preserved on film (see today’s link).
Ultimately, in 1913, she left ballet to pursue a career in film.
She died on March 4,
1968, and fittingly for a “little mermaid”, is buried on an island (Bornholm)
surrounded by the Baltic Sea.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Dance History Factoid # 94
“Ellen
Price was the model for the famous Little
Mermaid statue in Copenhagen.”
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