George Rinhart :: “These pretty girls from the Honeymoon Lane Company introduce the latest dance step, called the Lindbergh Hop, in honor of Captain Charles A. Lindbergh of New York to Paris nonstop flight fame. The girls are, left to right, Marjorie Joesting, Dorothy Proudlock, Emerita Monsch, and Anita Foy.” (original caption) | src Getty Images
Kasyan Yaroslavich Goleizovsky’s avant-garde choreography of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives, Nºs 10-11 (Ridicolosamente, Con vivacità) for his own company, the Moscow Chamber Ballet, in 1922. The configuration of the bodies is architectonic, like so much art of the time, and acrobatic. The avant-garde costume design was adapted to the new dispositions of the body. | src The Russian Art of Movement review
Lotte Jacobi :: Dancer Dinah Grace, Berlin, 1930s. | src realityayslum [‘Grace was very young when this picture was taken, but Lotte thought she was the best dancer she ever photographed. She was amazed at how easily Grace could move and do anything asked of her.’ quoted and scanned from ‘Lotte Jacobi: Theater & Dance Photographs’, Countryman Press, 1982.]
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