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ACQUISITIONS
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Royes Fernandez and Jeanne Fernandez Bruno
1944 or 1945; photoprint gift of Jeanne F. Bruno, 2014.0322.1
ACQUISITION SPOTLIGHT
Lives in Motion
Fernandez, Blanchin, and Pemberton Family Papers, Addition
gift of Jeanne F. Bruno, 2014.0322
Siblings Royes Fernandez (1929-1980) and Jeanne Fernandez Bruno (b. 1926) both studied ballet in New Orleans with Lelia Haller, the first American premiere danseuse of the Paris Opera Ballet, and both brother and sister became instrumental to the dance world, though in very different ways. Bruno danced through the 1940s for Lelia Haller’s New Orleans Opera House Association, and in the 1950s she starred in many dance productions for the Crescent City Concerts Association at the Municipal Auditorium and acted in the occasional play at Le Petit Theatre. In the 1970s Bruno served as program director of Dance Residencies in Louisiana, a division of the Louisiana State Arts Council, and she has since been instrumental in many other local and regional arts organizations, such as the National Association of Regional Ballet, Symphony Volunteers, New Orleans
Center for Creative Arts, Young Audiences, and Delta Festival Ballet.
Fernandez went on to study at the School of American Ballet in New York. After his high school graduation, in 1946, he joined the corps de ballet of the famed Original Ballet Russe, earlier known as Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. He then worked as a principal dancer for the touring company Markova-Dolin -----------j -
Ballet before becoming a soloist with the American Ballet Theater, a post he kept until his retirement, in 1973.
During his time with ABT,
Fernandez toured extensively, with performances
Emanuel Paul Fernandez
1916; photoprint
gift of Jeanne F. Bruno, 2014.0322.2
Related Holdings
Royes Fernandez Papers
96-92-L, 2013.0203
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Note to George Balanchine from Royes Fernandez
1947
gift of Jeanne F. Bruno, 2013.0203.4
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George Pierre Blanchin
ca. 1920-29; photoprint
gift of Jeanne F. Bruno, 2013.0305.1
Interior view of the French Opera House from La Favorite: Opera in Four Acts
1890; wood engraving
acquisition made possible by the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund, 92-4S-L.j8.320
Winter 2015	21