6/7/2023 0 Comments Backstage by Joan I. Wendland![]() Balanchine fell crazy in love, probably the more so because she had been Massine’s before. All around the apartment she came to share with him, she installed photographs of Massine. But she seems never to have forgotten Massine, and she did not hide this fact from Balanchine. Soon after that, she switched to Balanchine, and the two were married in December 1938. Zorina did and finally she slit her wrists in a Florida hotel where the company was staying. Massine reportedly didn’t mind this arrangement. ![]() Eventually, he met his destiny in the form of a different woman, an extremely beautiful nineteen-year-old German-Norwegian, Vera Zorina, who at that time was just coming off an affair with Léonide Massine, the only man Balanchine seems to have regarded as a serious rival (for jobs as well as women) and whom he consequently hated.Įach day, as Massine crossed the country on tour with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (he was its ballet master), he would set a timer: so-and-so minutes with his wife, so-and-so minutes with Zorina. ![]() ![]() Is it possible to get pregnant four or five times in a single year? Maybe so, because Howard’s mother threatened to have Balanchine deported. 1 His first American girlfriend, Holly Howard, apparently had four or five abortions in their first year together. George Balanchine, the great choreographer and cofounder of New York City Ballet, who arrived in the United States in 1933, almost always had a girlfriend-often a few. ![]()
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