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Rasmi, Ni Gusti Ayu Raka. (1939 - 2018) [Vechten, Carl Van. (1880-1964)] Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi performing as the Bird in the Legong, 1952
Rasmi, Ni Gusti Ayu Raka. (1939 - 2018) [Vechten, Carl Van. (1880-1964)] Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi performing as the Bird in the Legong, 1952
Rasmi, Ni Gusti Ayu Raka. (1939 - 2018) [Vechten, Carl Van. (1880-1964)] Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi performing as the Bird in the Legong, 1952
Rasmi, Ni Gusti Ayu Raka. (1939 - 2018) [Vechten, Carl Van. (1880-1964)] Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi performing as the Bird in the Legong, 1952
Rasmi, Ni Gusti Ayu Raka. (1939 - 2018) [Vechten, Carl Van. (1880-1964)] . Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi performing as the Bird in the Legong, 1952.
Silver gelatin photograph of the 12-year-old performer in “Dancers of Bali: Gamelan of Peliatan.” With the photographer's stamp to verso, inscribed by him upper center "Ni Gusti Reeka [sic] as the Bird in The Legong / XVII-JJ-8 / Oct 6, [19]52." 6 x 9.25 in. (16.8 x 23.5 cm). Very fine. From the Collection of Michael Feingold. 

It was 1952 in New York when Van Vechten photographed the young dancer Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi. "She had never before left her home village, Peliatan, with its small, mud-walled houses surrounded by bright green rice fields. Now she was the star of the Bali Dancers, a troupe that had traveled more than 10,000 miles into the alien worlds of the United States and Europe.  The troupe included two other female dancers about her age, Oka and Anom, and an accomplished young male dancer named Sampih.

“I was the smallest,” Raka Rasmi exclaimed in an interview at her home in Peliatan in 2008, as she paged through an album of pictures from the trip. “I was the cutest!” The dancers were accompanied by a 40-piece gamelan orchestra in which players used mallets to produce rapid, rhythmic and hypnotic music on banks of percussion instruments....John Martin, writing in The New York Times, called Raka Rasmi “an utterly lovely wisp of a girl, as serious as an owl until her smile breaks through.” Her dancing, he wrote, “was truly superb, technically and dramatically.” Ed Sullivan featured them on his Sunday-night variety show, “Toast of the Town,” just as 12 years later he would feature the Beatles on their concert tour of the United States. ("Overlooked No More: Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi, Balinese Dancer," Seth Mydans, NY Times, 3/13/20)

Carl Van Vechten was a writer, promoter of African-American artists during the Harlem Renaissance, patron of the arts, and photographer. After he graduated from the University of Chicago, he entered upon his first career as a reporter and by the early 1930s, Van Vechten was a well known author having written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines and published seven novels. It was during this time period that Van Vechten began to develop a second career as a photographer. Van Vechten over the course of his lifetime proved to be as successful a photographer as he was an author. 
Michael E. Feingold was an American critic, translator, lyricist, playwright and dramaturg. He was the lead theater critic of The Village Voice from 1982 to 2013, for which he was twice named a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism finalist, and was a two-time recipient of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He was a judge for the Obie Awards for 31 years, and the chairman for nine years. For his work as the translator and adapter of the book and lyrics of the Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and Bertolt Brecht musical Happy End, he was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1977.

Rasmi, Ni Gusti Ayu Raka. (1939 - 2018) [Vechten, Carl Van. (1880-1964)] Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi performing as the Bird in the Legong, 1952

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Rasmi, Ni Gusti Ayu Raka. (1939 - 2018) [Vechten, Carl Van. (1880-1964)] . Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi performing as the Bird in the Legong, 1952.
Silver gelatin photograph of the 12-year-old performer in “Dancers of Bali: Gamelan of Peliatan.” With the photographer's stamp to verso, inscribed by him upper center "Ni Gusti Reeka [sic] as the Bird in The Legong / XVII-JJ-8 / Oct 6, [19]52." 6 x 9.25 in. (16.8 x 23.5 cm). Very fine. From the Collection of Michael Feingold. 

It was 1952 in New York when Van Vechten photographed the young dancer Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi. "She had never before left her home village, Peliatan, with its small, mud-walled houses surrounded by bright green rice fields. Now she was the star of the Bali Dancers, a troupe that had traveled more than 10,000 miles into the alien worlds of the United States and Europe.  The troupe included two other female dancers about her age, Oka and Anom, and an accomplished young male dancer named Sampih.

“I was the smallest,” Raka Rasmi exclaimed in an interview at her home in Peliatan in 2008, as she paged through an album of pictures from the trip. “I was the cutest!” The dancers were accompanied by a 40-piece gamelan orchestra in which players used mallets to produce rapid, rhythmic and hypnotic music on banks of percussion instruments....John Martin, writing in The New York Times, called Raka Rasmi “an utterly lovely wisp of a girl, as serious as an owl until her smile breaks through.” Her dancing, he wrote, “was truly superb, technically and dramatically.” Ed Sullivan featured them on his Sunday-night variety show, “Toast of the Town,” just as 12 years later he would feature the Beatles on their concert tour of the United States. ("Overlooked No More: Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi, Balinese Dancer," Seth Mydans, NY Times, 3/13/20)

Carl Van Vechten was a writer, promoter of African-American artists during the Harlem Renaissance, patron of the arts, and photographer. After he graduated from the University of Chicago, he entered upon his first career as a reporter and by the early 1930s, Van Vechten was a well known author having written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines and published seven novels. It was during this time period that Van Vechten began to develop a second career as a photographer. Van Vechten over the course of his lifetime proved to be as successful a photographer as he was an author. 
Michael E. Feingold was an American critic, translator, lyricist, playwright and dramaturg. He was the lead theater critic of The Village Voice from 1982 to 2013, for which he was twice named a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism finalist, and was a two-time recipient of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He was a judge for the Obie Awards for 31 years, and the chairman for nine years. For his work as the translator and adapter of the book and lyrics of the Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and Bertolt Brecht musical Happy End, he was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1977.

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