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GEORGE PLATT LYNES (1907-1955)
Fred Danieli, Eugene Loring, and Lew Christensen in Showpiece. Silver print, the image measuring 229x187 mm; 9x7⅜ inches, with Lynes' credit stamp and the American Ballet Theatre stamp on verso. 1937.
Erick Hawkins studied at the School of American Ballet until 1938. At the same time he danced in George Balanchine's American Ballet and Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Caravan, for which he choreographed his first work, Showpiece (1937). In 1938 he joined Martha Graham's company, becoming its first male member and the choreographer's partner in numerous works including Appalachian Spring (1944).
