CORVINO BALLET
*** Alfredo Corvino***
Champion Flyweight Boxer
Montevideo, early 1930s
Regatta Rower,
Montevideo, early 1930s
Montevideo, early 1930s
Massine's Seventh Symphony
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1940s
California, early 1940s
Agnes De Mille's Rodeo
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1940s
Skiing in Switzerland while serving in the US Army, 1940s
Late1940s
Teaching in Essen, 1959
With Kurt Jooss (Pina Bausch on left)
Essen, 1959
Partnering Pina Bausch
Essen, 1959
Ramblerny Summer Camp
New Hope, Pennsylvania 1965
Rehearsing Pas de Quatre
Dance Circle, NYC 1970
The Nutcracker stage rehearsal with teachers of The New Jersey Dance Theater Guild, 1970
As Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker
The New Jersey Dance Theater Guild, 1978
The Jooss School
Essen, Germany 1990s
Teaching in Paris, 1995
80th Birthday Party with Pina & Company
Los Angeles, 1996
Master Class in NYC, 2004
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Dancing with Pina
In the 1940s, a young soloist from the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo fell in love with and married a beautiful photographer and costume maker from New York City.
The rest is history........
~~~ This site is in LOVING MEMORY of these two remarkable people ~~~
ALFREDO CORVINO (1916-2005)
AND
MARCELLA CORVINO (1918-2004)
***Andra Corvino***
***Ernesta Corvino***
***The front studio of DANCE CIRCLE, 763 8th Avenue***
With her favorite cavalier, 1952
Age 7, dancing on the stage of the Amato Opera, NYC
Amato Opera with Marie Adair & Peter Saul
At 14 years of age
Studio Portrait, 1970
As Ballet Mistress, with the Director, of The New Jersey Dance Theater Guild, 1974
As The Lead Rider in E. Corvino's Derby, 1985
As Mona Lisa in E. Corvino's The Gallery, 1981
With The Maestro, 2005
Taking Class with Tanztheater Wuppertal
Paris, 2009
With members of Tanztheater Wuppertal....(lf. to rt. standing) Daphnis Kokkinos, Damiano Bigi, Fernando Suels, Julie Anne Stanzak, Pablo Gimeno Arau, Ales Cucek, Regina Advento (upside-down) & (kneeling) Barbara Kaufmann, Dominique Mercy & Matthias Burkert
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The Early Years
As Moth in New York Shakespeare Festival's
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1964
Danse Arabe, The Nutcracker, 1969
Marzipan, The Nutcracker, 1970
Peasant Pas de Deux from Giselle with Elias Colon, 1971
Andra Corvino's Romance Pas de Deux with Arturo Azito, 1972
Maiden Voyage (E. Corvino/Poulenc), 1972
Roberto Cartagena's Suite Andina, 1978
Lucille Grahn's Solo in Pas de Quatre
in performance, NYC, 1979
As Chaplin in her ballet, Charlie & Co., 1981
As The Fifer in her ballet, The Gallery, 1981
With the UNLV Dance Arts Company in her ballet, Sujets d'Art, 1997
As The Clown in Ballet of the Dolls (E. Corvino)
In performance, NYC, 2004
As The Clown in Ballet of the Dolls (E. Corvino)
In performance, Las Vegas, 2004
As Blue Boy in her ballet, Works of Heart, 2010
Partnering with the Maestro
Coast of New Hampshire, 1983
Practicing in Dance Circle's front studio, 1988
Taking the Maestro's Class, 2004
Teaching at the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, 2006
With José Limón Dance Company on the stage of The Joyce Theater during the company's 2006 New York season .... (lf. to rt.) Daniel Fetecua, Bradley Shelver, Ryoko Kudo, Kristen Foote, Kathryn Alter, Roxane D'Orleans Juste, Brenna Monroe-Cook, Ernesta Corvino, Katie Diamond, Francisco Ruvalcaba, Carla Maxwell, Roel Seeber and Jonathan Fredrickson
As "The Ballet Master", Wuppertal Germany, 2008
Teaching at the Perry-Mansfield Winter Intensive, NYC, 2009
Photo: Nan Melville
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***Marcella Corvino***
In front of her parents hat shop, age 4
As an Isadorable, age 7
Self-Portrait, early 1940s
The Wedding, 1947
Newlyweds
As a young mother
Brooklyn, 1961
The Nutcracker, stage rehearsal, 1970
San Francisco, 1971
With a friend, 1974
At the desk of Dance Circle, 1980s
51st Wedding Anniversary, 1998
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~ All photos from The Corvino Archives ~
Teaching Baroque class in Basel, Switzerland,
2017
As The Sleeper in her ballet, Somnus, 1989
As The Mummy in her ballet
The Mummy Returns, 1986
As Chaplin in her ballet, Charlie & Co.
1986