Annette Kellerman, ca. 1910
Tag: ballerina shoes
Bloom ::
Actress, dancer, singer and spy
Louise Browne, cream-toned glossy bromide print, Chicago, circa 1923. | src NPG
Howard Instead ::
‘Ballet Dancer’, matte bromide print on tissue and card mount, 1920s. | src NPG
Gert Weigelt :: Ballet is Woman, 1995 | Autopsy in Black and White | Autopsie in Schwarz/Weiss | src Tanzmuseum des Deutschen Tanzarchivs Köln
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Paul Himmel :: Ballet Swan Lake, New York, 1951-1952 | src Kunst Camera
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Paul Himmel :: Untitled (Das New York City Ballet tanzt Schwanensee), 1951-1952. | src arttattler via madivinecomedie and
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Boris Lipnitzki :: Olga Spessiva in Giselle, probably 1930s. | src barcarole
Olga
Spessivtzeva (billed Spessiva for phonic simplicity or maybe to make
the name more the same length as “Pavlova”.
She was most famous for dancing Giselle, a ballet in which a young girl goes mad from grief when she discovers her lover is betrothed to another. When she first danced the role of Giselle she researched the role by visiting asylums and watching the way the patients moved and behaved. According to her dance partner Pierre Vladimirov “Her Giselle… breathed a genuine insanity, not theatrical illusion. Giselle seemed to be an extension of her own existence“.
She toured the world with the Ballet Russes and later joined the Paris Opera Ballet, but sadly her fears followed her wherever she went and she eventually broke down on stage in Sydney Australia in 1937.
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