Tanaquil
Americannoun
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In 1956, tragedy struck there again: Balanchine’s wife Tanaquil LeClercq fell sick with polio.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2016
Maria Konnikova recommends The Master’s Muse by Varley O'Connor Tanaquil LeClercq was the only one of George Balanchine's four wives—five, if you count his common-law marriage—who never wrote a memoir.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2012
The principal ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq was both muse and wife to the legendary Russian choreographer George Balanchine when, at 27, she contracted polio.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2012
By the time Jerome Robbins himself danced on with Tanaquil LeClercq to join in some hilarious, supine calisthenics, the audience was having trouble deciding whether to hold its sides or pound its palms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tanaquil foresaw the greatness of the boy, and from this time he was brought up as the king's child.
From A Smaller History of Rome by Sir William Smith
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