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Nina Golovina in Auroras wedding, 1940. The Ballets Russes Australian season was from 30th December 1939 to 19 September 1940. / source: State Library Victoria Collections
Signed photograph of Ninette de Valois in You’d be Surprised,
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, January-February, 1923. The show
transferred to London’s Alhambra Theatre, and ran for nearly 200
performances, until May 1923. Photo: Hana / source: Royal Ballet
Ninette de Valois (centre back) as Cupidon in a series of divertissements entitled Fanatics of Pleasure with Lydia Lopokova and Léonide Massine (centre) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1922. Photographer unknown. / source: Royal Ballet School
Dancer Lydia Sokolova
(1896–1974), born Hilda Munnings, was an English
ballerina who danced with the Diaghilev Ballets Russes for over 15 years
(from 1913), and became a Principal of the Company. Here, as the Miller’s Wife in Massine’s Le Tricorne [The Three-Cornered Hat], 1919. Photo: Lenare. / source: Royal Dance School
Dancer Vera Nemtchinova, 1940. The dancer performs an arabesque in a short tutu.Biographical/Historical note: The Ballets Russes Australian season was from 30th December 1939 to 19 September 1940. / source:
Claude Harris :: Eugene Lapitsky & Bronislava Nijinska as The Bandits in On the Road, 1925. Nijinska’s Théâtre Chorégraphique.
Moffett Studio :: Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn in Ourieda, a Romance of the Desert. This was the first duet performed by Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn, 1914 / src: Denishawn Collection
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