Anita Berber as Bingha

Alexander Binder :: Anita Berber as Bingha, costume designed by Walter Schnackenberg, 1922. Schnackenberg was known as the “Toulouse-Lautrec of Germany”. | src 50 watts 

Actress and dancer Anita Berber (1899 – 1928), 1910′s-1920′s. The daughter of a cabaret singer and a violinist, Anita Berber also follows an artistic path and studies theatre and dance from a young age. Appearing on several cabaret stages. She proposes audacious and provocative performances that portray violence, life and passion while she becomes the first dancer to execute her act entirely naked. / src: The Red List

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