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Newscutting featuring Ninette de Valois as Little Red Riding Hood

Newscutting featuring Ninette de Valois performing with the Diaghilev Ballets Russes as Little Red Riding Hood in Aurora’s Wedding (1923), which was based on Act III of Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty. Photographer unknown. | src Royal Ballet School/NDV/EPH

G. Hoffmann by Henri Manuel

Henri Manuel :: Dancer Gertrude Hoffmann, undated on source: Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Photograph Collection [detail]
Henri Manuel :: Dancer Gertrude Hoffmann, undated on source: Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Photograph Collection [detail]
Henri Manuel :: Dancer Gertrude Hoffmann, undated on source: Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Photograph Collection [detail]
Henri Manuel :: Dancer Gertrude Hoffmann, undated on source: Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Photograph Collection
Henri Manuel :: Gertrude Hoffmann. Autographed full-body photo in a dance pose. | src Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Photograph Collection

Russian dancer Felia Doubrovska or Dubrovskaya, 1929

Russian dancer Felia Doubrovska, or Felia Dubrovskaya [Russian: Фелия Дубровская], real name Фелицата Леонтьевна Длужневская, (Felizata or Felicata Dlouzhnevskain); born in St Petersburg, on February 13, 1896. Dancer in Balanchine ballet and Diaghilev Ballets Russes, ca. 1929