@owen @Baba A bit busy today preparing for our ill-advised adventure, but I'll take a look at the link and see if I can chose five photos. I've got to say, I'm glad you're enjoying the hunt and it's amazing to see all these lost photos, but it's more than a little unsettling for me to be so immersed in his life right now, almost exactly 25 years to the day from his death. Don't want to dissuade you from your treasure hunt and your quest to find out as much as you can about him, but he's not an abstract unknown entity to me and every new picture is a little slap in the face.
@grampyfr I never heard of such a thing. How are they?
@owen It looks like you've arrived, to me.
@owen Don't tempt me...
Great, one week on Tin Can Phone and I'm inundated with nude photos of my dad.
@Baba That is correct. November 14, 1960, to be precise. From La Sonnambula by Balanchine. Guessing that's "The Sleepwalker".
@owen I had a dream recently that I ran into him and pulled him over to meet you and Leo, but then when I turned around to present him to the two of you, he was gone. Very sad morning. Months go by without a thought about him, and then something like that happens and it feels fresh again.
@owen See any resemblance?
@Baba The teaching photo was on EBay, curiously enough.
@Baba That was 1979, so I'm guessing it's Spokane. I'll post one more I ran across from NYCB days. Don't think I've ever seen him so young.
@Baba After Owen posted the Jerome Robbins clip, I started wondering if my dad might have been one of the men in the piece at some point. So I did a quick search for Bill Earl New York City Ballet and that came up. Along with this...
Since we're on an old-school ballet kick, here's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT8AdwV0Vkw
@owen Makes sense. I figured it was operator error and not a problem with the site. Thanks.
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