Name/Title
Ward-Belmont 1929 Students of the Dance Recital ProgramEntry/Object ID
2022.578Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
Ward-Belmont School presents in recital: Students of the Dance. The recital was held at the Belmont Theatre on Thursday evening, April 18, 1929, at 8:15. The two-part recital was directed by Evelyn Jantzer, assisted by pianist Margaret Frierson Hall, with dance compositions by Madame Sonia Serova, Veronine Vestoff, and Evelyn Jantzer. The names of performers are listed in the program alongside their respective dance numbers. Ushers are listed on the back of the program.Context
Evelyn Jantzer was the dance instructor within the school of physical education at Ward-Belmont throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s. She graduated from the Savage School of Physical Education and the Vestoff Serova School of Dancing. Margaret Frierson Hall was a secretary and assistant within the gymnasium and the school of physical education.
Sonia Serova and her husband, Veronine Vestoff, were Russian ballet dancers who formed and directed the Vestoff Serova Russian School of Dancing in New York City in 1917, from which Evelyn Jantzer graduated.Collection
Harpeth Hall School ArchivesLexicon
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Ward-Belmont, Dance, Recital, 1929
