Ellen Price, ballet's first film star by Judith Mackrell

The 1903 black-and-white film may be jerky, but the Danish ballerina's technique still impresses a century after its recordingReading on mobile? Click here to watch the videoEllen Price, the early-20th-century Danish ballerina, has two claims to immortality. Firstly as the model for Edvard Eriksen's statue of The Little Mermaid, the tourist face of Copenhagen; and secondly as one of the very first ballerinas whose da…

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