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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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Atelier Setzer* :: German dancers Joachim von Seewitz and Lo Hesse, Vienna, 1918 / from: Sport und Salon

Dancers Lo Hesse and Joachim von Seewitz were active in Munich and Berlin between 1916 and 1920. Their dances relied heavily on extravagantly exotic costumes designed mostly by the Munich expressionist artist Walter Schnackenberg. The couple favoured fantastically Oriental, Venetian, Spanish, or rococo costumes that had the effect of making dance a sign of refined luxury and exquisite voluptuousness.

*Franz Xaver Setzer

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