Ellen Petz by Atelier Setzer

Atelier Setzer ~ Ellen Petz. Role Portrait. | src and ©️ Theatermuseum Wien
Atelier Setzer ~ Ellen Petz. Rollenporträt. | src and ©️ Theatermuseum Wien
Atelier Setzer ~ Ellen Petz. Rollenporträt / Role portrait. Print on cardboard | src Theatermuseum Wien

Ninette de Valois, 1920s

Photograph of Ninette de Valois as ‘un joueur de volant’ [Badminton player] in Nijnska’s Les Facheux The Annoying Ones, 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 RBS/STA/NDV/PHO/

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

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