Category: anonymous, unknown

Role of Gesture in a Pose, 1920s

Photographer unknown. Three studies for the ‘Role of Gesture in a Defined Pose’. One of the assigned research themes at the Choreological Laboratory for 1924-26. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement
Photographer unknown. Three studies for the ‘Role of Gesture in a Defined Pose’. One of the assigned research themes at the Choreological Laboratory for 1924-26. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement
Photographer unknown. Three studies for the ‘Role of Gesture in a Defined Pose’. One of the assigned research themes at the Choreological Laboratory for 1924-26. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement

The Russian Art of Movement

Nicoletta Misler: The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930 Umberto Allemandi & Co. (January 2018)
One of the many mages from the book that represent the role of movement in dance, in gymnastics, in Russian Avant-garde. The book is the result of research that began in the late 1970s and culminated in the 2011 publication in Moscow of V Natsjale Bilo Telo (In the Beginning was the Body), on the 1920s experiments in movement in the Soviet Union. | src Allemandi

Annette Kellerman publicity shot

Annette Kellerman, water ballerina. Head and shoulders publicity shot, with head turned to the side, wearing sequined costume and feathers. | src NFSA ~ National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Ostrakon con danzatrice

Ostrakon figurato con rappresentazione di danzatrice in posizione acrobatica. La donna è seminuda, con indosso un pareo nero e gli orecchini a cerchio in oro. È raffigurata, mentre si piega, perfettamente di profilo. Calcare dipinto. Nuovo Regno, XIX-XX dinastia (1292-1076 a.C.). Provenienza: Deir el-Medina.
Ostrakon with representation of a dancer in an acrobatic position. The woman is half-naked, wearing a black sarong and gold hoop earrings. She is pictured, bending over, perfectly in profile. Painted limestone. New Kingdom, 19th-20th dynasty (1292-1076 BC). Provenance: Deir el-Medina
source Museo Egizio, Torino