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Emil Otto Hoppé :: Lubov Tchernyshova, Zygmund Novak and Vera Nemtchinova in ‘Astuzie Femminili’, 1920 / src: E.O. Hoppé: Ballet Ruses
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Cutting from a scrapbook created by Gilbert Barker: photograph of
Tamara Karsavina in the title role of Fokine’s The Firebird [L’Oiseau de
feu], 1910.
Karsavina’s costume was designed by Léon Bakst; it presented her in a
tall plumed headdress adorned with long plaits, wearing ‘harem-style’
trousers. Photo: Bertram Park / src: Royal Ballet School
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Moffett Studio :: Actress Lola Fisher, undated. / src: Broadway Photographs
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Three Maiko, 1928. Three maiko (apprentice geisha), Takewaka on the left, Tomeko in the centre and Satogiku on the right. / src: Blue Ruin
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Nina Golovina in Auroras wedding, 1940. The Ballets Russes Australian season was from 30th December 1939 to 19 September 1940. / source: State Library Victoria Collections

Emil Otto Hoppé :: Dancer Tamara Karsavina in ‘Le Spectre de la Rose’, 1911 | src E.O. Hoppé
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Vintage photograph of bathers protecting themselves with a parasol while bathing, 1920′s. / src: sunshinevintagephoto

Vera Nemtchinova in Les Biches, first danced in 1924. / src: Nalda Murilova