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Marie Taglioni
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A ballerina who shaped the artform at the pinnacle of the Romantic era
With her weightless technique and uncanny ability to balance on her toes in darned, soft-toe ballet slippers, Marie Taglioni (1804-1884) was the first to make gravity-defying pomtework popular among performers and audiences alike. However it was her artistry, particularly in her signature role in La Sylphide, that inspired a devoted following and forever changed the artform of ballet.
Taglioni was born in Sto...
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Marie Taglioni
Dance Teacher
; A ballerina who shaped the artform at the pinnacle of the Romantic era With her weightless technique and uncanny ability to balance on her toes in darned, soft-toe ballet slippers, Marie Taglioni (1804-1884) was the first to make gravity-defying pomtework popular among performers and audiences
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Putting the World in a Box: Joseph Cornell's Inside Stories
The Washington Post
; ... such beauty everywhere, in ballet books and Central Park, in old maps and new movies. He glimpsed it in the starry night, in soap bubbles ... pile of loose papers -- pages torn from calendars, snapshots, maps, engravings. On one such sheet one reads: "A gigantic fantastic ...
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VALET GIRL.(Alice Taglioni)(Interview)
WWD
; Byline: Chantal Goupil PARIS - Alice Taglioni, 29, may have dedicated nearly two decades of her life to playing the piano, but with her movie-star looks, there was little chance of her staying hunched over the ivories forever. Now she's appearing on-screen, as a model no less, in French director
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CORRECTION: Smithsonian unboxes the mind of enigmatic artist Joseph Cornell.
Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
; ... this article. Dec. 24--WASHINGTON -- With a vocabulary of star-maps and glitter, of jewel boxes, feathers, ethereal women and symbols ... 2007, Seattle Times Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374- ...
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Come dancing
The Independent - London
; With a little cotton wool and a lot of training, the Swedish-Italian dancer Marie Taglioni changed the face of ballet forever. Rising without apparent effort on to her padded toes when sce made soup with her slippers after a particularly satisfying performance. Ballet has come a long way since
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Incurably romantic
Pointe
; Taglioni's tutu still inspires. Remember when your ballet class consisted of playing "trolls and fairies," rather than doing tendus and fouettes? Chances are you dreamed of being a ballerina in a classical tutu or in the extended tulle of a romantic skirt designed to transport you to the next level
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Motorcycle innovator dies.(Fabio Taglioni)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
IIE Solutions
; Fabio Taglioni, the Italian industrial engineer who led the transformation of the Ducati motorcycle from a cheap way for Italians to get around after World War II to a high-performance racing machine, died July 18 at the age of 80. Taglioni's began experimenting with motorcycle design as an
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Dr. T, 1920-2001.(Fabio Taglioni, motorcycle designer)(Brief Article)
Rider
; Fabio Taglioni, the legendary engineer Dr. T , whose name is synonymous with Ducati's, passed away from cardiac arrest July 18, 2001, in his Bologna, Italy, home. He was 80 years old. Fabjo Taglioni was born in Lugo di Romagna on September 10, 1920. His father, Biagio, was an engineer who owned a
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These shoes are baked for dancing When ballet gets tough, the tough wear dainty pink slippers. Louise Levene excavates the secret history of dancers' footwear and, below, reviews two dance events in London
The Sunday Telegraph London
; When the great ballerina Marie Taglioni made her final guest appearance in Russia in 1842, a group of St Petersburg groupies paid 200 roubles for a pair of her old shoes, cooked them and ate them with a special sauce. The Swedish-Italian star wasn't the first to dance on the tips of her toes but
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Advanced design
Pointe
; Pointe shoe design reaches for new heights. Marie Taglioni wouldn't recognize the latest pointe shoes. They have come a long way from the darned satin slippers she used to rise to her toes. After many years of minimal activity in the pointe shoe business, things have begun to change recently. Not
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