Category: portrait, Porträt, retrato, ritratto, portret, retrat, Bildnis

Loie Fuller in ‘Serpentine’ dress

Portrait of Loie Fuller wearing an early version of her “Serpentine” dress. The photograph features a full length portrait of the dancer kneeling amidst a pile of cushions, with her arms upraised, and a small carved snake clasped in her right hand. Her skirt, which is decorated with repeated images of snakes, is raised up and spread out in a wide circle behind her, date unknown, late 1890s. | src V&A Museum

Loie Fuller par Henri Manuel

Henri Manuel (1874-1947) ~ Loïe Fuller in Robert d’Humières’ Tragédie de Salomé at the Théâtre des Arts, Paris, 1907 | src Ader
Henri Manuel (1874-1947) ~ Loïe Fuller (1862 – 1928) in attrezzo for the Tragedy of Salome, 1896 | src getty images

Loïe Fuller by B.J. Falk, 1896

Benjamin Joseph Falk :: Portrait of stage actress and dancer Loïe Fuller sitting barefoot atop a mirror, 1896 (marked nº 8). | src Washington University Libraries

“We are spirits of another sort”

Victor Jory as Oberon: “We are spirits of another sort.” (III.ii.388)
Oberon, King of the Fairies, rules the Fairy Kingdom. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warner Brothers, 1935), directed by William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt. Photographer: Hans Fred Konekamp. Still photographer: Mickey Marigold. | src Cleveland State University

Dancer Anton Birkmayer, 1922

The dancer Anton Birkmayer. Published in La Danse, November 1922. Front cover | src CND ~ Médiathèque
The dancer Anton Birkmayer. Published in La Danse, November 1922 | src CND ~ Médiathèque

Janine Solane as St. Sébastien

Dancer Janine Solane as St. Sébastien. Published in Revue de la Danse nº4, Avril 1948. | src CND ~ Médiathèque

Bajaja Ballet, 1916

Karel Váňa :: Arnoštka Coufalová (as Fatmé) in Bajaja Ballet, 1916 (Choreographed by Augustin Berger, according to the model of Jindřich Kaan from Albeşti). | src Prague National Theatre