Tag: acrobatics

Manual for artistic acrobatics

Photographer unknown, Stationary pose on the elbows, late 1920s. Manual for a course in artistic acrobatics. Art of Movement State Courses (of Valeriia Tsvetaeva). VTs
V. Tsvetaeva, Stationary pose on elbows, late 1920s. Art of Movement State Courses (of Valeriia Tsvetaeva) for the Department of Circus and Variety Theatre at MGTT. Pencil on paper, initialled: “V. Ts.”
src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Artistic acrobatics, late 1920s

Photographer unknown, acrobatic poses outdoors from a course manual in artistic acrobatics, late 1920s. Art of Movement State Courses (of Valeriia Tsvetaeva). VTs (Valeriia Tsvetaeva repository. Now in the collection of Evgenii Chernov, Moscow) | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930
Photographer unknown, acrobatic poses outdoors from a course manual in artistic acrobatics, late 1920s. Art of Movement State Courses (of Valeriia Tsvetaeva). VTs (Valeriia Tsvetaeva repository. Now in the collection of Evgenii Chernov, Moscow) | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930
Photographer unknown, acrobatic poses outdoors from a course manual in artistic acrobatics, late 1920s. Art of Movement State Courses (of Valeriia Tsvetaeva). VTs (Valeriia Tsvetaeva repository. Now in the collection of Evgenii Chernov, Moscow) | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930
Photographer unknown, acrobatic poses outdoors from a course manual in artistic acrobatics, late 1920s. Art of Movement State Courses (of Valeriia Tsvetaeva). VTs (Valeriia Tsvetaeva repository. Now in the collection of Evgenii Chernov, Moscow) | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Dancer in handstand, NY

Strand (NY) :: Dancer in handstand wearing rhinestone costume. “The Littlejohns, Inc., Rhinestone Specialists” stamped on verso. | src Variety, Vaudeville & Burlesque. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library (NYPL)