Tanaquil
Americannoun
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Nadon’s cool, grounded glamour has an old-school appeal; because of it, my mind drifted to Tanaquil Le Clercq, the City Ballet dancer who contracted polio during a European tour in 1956.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil le Clercq,” documentary by Nancy Buirski.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2014
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
Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq entered, joined in the mirror work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chapel contained relics of the kingly period, the wool, distaff, spindle, and slippers of Tanaquil, and brass clypea or medallions, made of money confiscated from Vitruvius Vaccus.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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