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Belgian magazine "ABC" dated 13.01.1946 with a cover feature on ice-skating ballerina Carol Lynn.
Carol Lynn's career spanned half a century. She was associate director along with Ted Shawn of Jacob's Pillow University of Dance and Dance Festival from 1943 to 1960. It was during those years that she recorded over 100,000 feet of tape of live performances on the stage at the Pillow. The complete collection resides in The Dance Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
In Baltimore she served as chairperson of the Peabody Conservatory's dance department for nearly 25 years, retiring in 1970. In 1976 The Maryland Council for Dance gave its 2nd annual award to Miss Lynn for "outstanding contributions to the dance in Maryland."
Beginning at age 8 she joined a folk dancing class at her elementary school as this was before the days of wide-spread ballet instruction in the United States. Her mother took her to the opera and theater and after seeing someone on point it was just ballet for her.
Miss Lynn's ballet mistress was Madame Elisabetta Menzeli. After Miss Lynn moved with her mother to Baltimore in 1920 and began teaching ballet, Madame Menzeli, recently retired, came and stayed with them, and gave Miss Lynn private ballet lessons to keep her technique sharp, at 5 in the morning.
As a professional dancer she toured with a small company that performed in vaudeville, as it was not until the 1930s that the United States became ballet conscious with the advent of Colonel de Basil and his Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo performing all over the United States.
Beginning in the summer of 1922 Miss Lynn trained in the Denishawn School in New York to learn their method, and for several summers following studied with Fokine, Mordkin and others.
At this period, during the winters, she taught at her own school in Baltimore, and she and her advanced students danced annually at the Lyric Theater for almost 10 years, and later at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
It was Carol Lynn who persuaded Ted Shawn in the mid-1930s to arrange a course for women at Jacob's Pillow, which he insisted she manage alone. Ted Shawn was busy with his troupe of men dancers that he had formed in 1932. During her tenure at the Pillow she had charge of school activities and filmed the many artists performing, as well as "Les Sylphides" as performed by Ballet Theater; "Giselle" and "Coppelia" by Ballet Rambert.
36 x 26 cms, magazine, 16 pages.
1946
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