Jacket worn by Desmond Kelly in Swan Lake: Museum Object and Cultural History
Jacket worn by Desmond Kelly in Swan Lake: date made: ca 1974. Associated Name: Ishimoto, May. Associated Name: Kelly, Desmond.
The object in the museum catalogue
Jacket worn by ballet dancer Desmond Kelly in the third act of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake . Born in Zimbabwe, Kelly performed for several international troupes, joining the Royal Ballet in 1970 as a principal. In 1978 he became ballet master at Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, with whom he started dancing in 1976. He would go on to serve as assistant director at the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Elmhurst School for Dance.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1974
- Associated Name: Ishimoto, May
- Associated Name: Kelly, Desmond
- maker: Ishimoto, May
- Object Name: ballet costume
- Object Name: ballet costume worn by Desmond Kelly
- Object Name: ballet costume worn by Desmond Kelly in Swan Lake
- Object Name: ballet costum, jacket worn by Desmond Kelly in Swan Lake
- Object Name: ballet costume, jacket, worn by Desmond Kelly in Swan Lake
- Object Name: ballet costume, jacket,
- Object Name: jacket, ballet
- Measurements: overall: 22 in x 19 1/2 in; 55.88 cm x 49.53 cm
- Subject: ballet
- Subject: Dance
- web subject: Entertainment
- ID Number: 2010.0201.01
- accession number: 2010.0201
- catalog number: 2010.0201.01
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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