Broadway Stars Broadway Stars

100 Years (Or So) Ago in Dance: The Whirl of Life by Arlene Yu

Happy New Year! Rather than look back at 2015, we're going back 100 years for the first in a series of blog  posts featuring events in dance history from (about) 100 years ago. And I'm starting with something that is personally meaningful to me, as a ballroom dancer: Vernon and Irene Castle in the silent film, The Whirl of Life. Our copy of the film came to us from the Museum of Modern Art, whose 16mm prin…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:29PM on January 8, 2016

« Back to BroadwayStars