Tag Archives: Albertina Rasch girls

March 2023
Women’s History Month: Spotlight on Albertina Rasch

Albertina Rasch (1891-1967),was a remarkable woman. Ambitious and admired, a ballerina, business owner, choreographer, dancer, entrepreneur, furlana expert, groundbreaker, head of her own companies, immigrant, jazz-lover, Keith-Albee Circuit headliner, leader, modern dancer, naturalized citizen, observer, peculiarly American (in Dimitri Tiomkin’s … Read More…

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January 2020
Intrada releases Dimitri Tiomkin ballet music

Paris Under the Stars: Ballet Music for Albertina Rasch has been issued by Intrada on compact disc. The newly recorded works were written by composer Dimitri Tiomkin between 1927 and 1932 and performed as ballets choreographed by Albertina Rasch for … Read More…

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June 2016
Behind the photograph: Eddie Cantor and the Albertina Rasch girls

Recently Olivia Tiomkin picked up I Blow My Own Horn, the autobiography of the American pioneer motion picture producer Jesse Lasky. Back in 1916, Lasky merged his company, Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, with Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players Film … Read More…

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