The Scandalous “Naked Ballerina” That Inspired Florentina Holzinger

This story is taken from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of AnOther Magazine:

“The dancer Trixie Cordua studied under George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham and was famously known as the ‘naked ballerina’, but by her thirties she was considered ‘too old’ for ballet. She started teaching and had her own art practice, revelling in all that ballet had refused and sanitised – mess, blood, abjection. She was an artist whose choices contrasted with conventionalhellip;

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