David Salle :: Untitled, 1984 / src gacougnol / via les-sources-du-nil
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Moffett Studio :: American stage actress Katherine Chrystal Herne, undated, probably 1910′s / source: broadway.cas.sc.edu
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Claude Harris :: Bronislava Nijinska in Holy Etudes, with two unidentifed dancers, 1925. Nijinska’s Théâtre Chorégraphique.
Dancer Ninette de Valois as ‘un joueur de volant’ [Badminton player] in Nijnska’s Les Facheux [The Annoying Ones]
(1924), given by the Diaghilev Ballets Russes. It was based on
Molière’s libretto for Beauchamps’ much earlier work of the same name
(1661). Photographer unknown. / src: Royal Ballet School
Dancer Ninette de Valois in a 1925 revival of Fokine’s Les Papillons [The Butterflies] (1913). The annotation reads: ‘Ninette de Valois with Diaghilev’ [ie the Ballets Russes]. Photographer unknown./ src: Royal Ballet
Signed photograph of Ninette de Valois in You’d be Surprised,
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, January-February, 1923. The show
transferred to London’s Alhambra Theatre, and ran for nearly 200
performances, until May 1923. Photo: Hana / source: Royal Ballet
Ninette de Valois (centre back) as Cupidon in a series of divertissements entitled Fanatics of Pleasure with Lydia Lopokova and Léonide Massine (centre) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1922. Photographer unknown. / source: Royal Ballet School
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Dancer Lydia Sokolova
(1896–1974), born Hilda Munnings, was an English
ballerina who danced with the Diaghilev Ballets Russes for over 15 years
(from 1913), and became a Principal of the Company. Here, as the Miller’s Wife in Massine’s Le Tricorne [The Three-Cornered Hat], 1919. Photo: Lenare. / source: Royal Dance School
