(18/50)
A very young Gelsey Kirkland as an angel, a party child, and a Polichinelle!
(top Upstage center. Fred Fehl, 1963.
Upstage, last in line. Fred Fehl, 1963.
(bottom) Downstage center. Fred Fehl, 1963.
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(19/50) Of a 17 year-old Gelsey Kirkland, Clive Barnes wrote:
“It is a special pleasure to see Miss Kirkland right now in the springtime of her talents. Here is a girl destined for great things, but her present dancing is tinged with a very special joy, a very special awareness of her own developing accomplishment. This was even more evident … when, partnered by a more than dashing and gallant Edward Villella, she danced the leading role of the Sugar Plum Fairy. There was no difference here—she took the ballet by right, as a young princess. There is already such authority and breeding that you can hardly wait to see the dancers she must surely develop into in a few more years.” —Clive Barnes, New York Times, 1970
Edward Villella and Gelsey Kirkland in her Sugar Plum debut.
Photos by Fred Fehl, 1969.
Harry Ransom Center
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