Throwback Thursday and Henry Holt
Most accounts list Diaghilev’s dancers
as the ones who brought ballet to America. This is beccause many of them
settled here in the early twentieth century. And it’s true that they had the
staying power and helped the evolution of ballet in the U.S. The most
notable of these dancers was George Balanchine. But ballet in America goes back
much, much earlier than that.
It was Henry Holt, an Englishman and
dancing master, who staged the first touring ballet production in America. It
was performed Charleston, South Carolina where Henry Holt had established a
dancing school. The year was 1735! (http://michaelminn.net/andros/history/beginnings_of_american_ballet/index.html).
One of the ballets performed was The
Adventures of Harlequin and Scaramouch.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Ballet History Secret #298:
“Henry Holt staged the earliest known ballet in
America.”
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