Sasha (Alexander Stewart) :: Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, 1927. “La
Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat) is a ten-minute piece
with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine
Pevsner.  It was created in 1926-27 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
and it starred Serge Lifar as the Young Man and Alicia Nikitina and
Olga Spessivtzeva in the title role. The music was written by Henri
Sauguet and choreographed by George Balanchine. / source: Flickr

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S. Georges :: Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, ca.1927. “La Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat) is a ten-minute piece with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner.  It was created in 1926-1927 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and it starred Serge Lifar as the Young Man and Alicia Nikitina and Olga Spessivtzeva in the title role.  The music was written by Henri Sauguet and choreographed by George Balanchine. / source: Flickr 

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Ruth Bayton by Willinger

Laszlo Willinger ~ French revue dancer Ruth Bayton with banana skirt in the Revue ‘Der Zug nach dem Westen’ (The Train to the West) at the Apollo Theater, 1927 (published: Quer (sic) 5/1927) | src Getty Images