Carina Ari i Anitras dans, 1922

Studio Setzer (Wien) :: Carina Ari [Maria Karina Viktoria Jansson (Stockholm, 1897 – Buenos Aires, 1970)] in Anitra’s dance, 1922 | src Dansmuseet
Carina Ari i Anitras dans, Svenska Baletten, foto: Studio Isabey, Paris, ca. 1922. | src Dansmuseet on IG
Carina Ari (*) dans la danse d’Anitra, Divertissement, 1921. Photo Isabey © BmO / BnF. | src Les Ballets Suédois 1920-1925. Une compagnie d’avant-garde (2014) at Palais Garnier
(*) Maria Karina Viktoria Jansson (Stockholm, 1897 – Buenos Aires, 1970)

Svenska Baletten, 1920-21

Svenska Baletten på taket till hemmascenen Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. | Swedish Ballet on the roof of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Paris 1920 | src Dansmuseets arkiv on IG
Svenska Baletten. Taket till Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 22 februari 1921. | src Dansmuseet arkiv on IG
The Swedish Ballet over the roof of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 22 February, 1921. | src Dansmuseet arkiv on IG

Jean Börlin as the Prince, 1920

Le danseur Jean Börlin in ‘Maison de fous’ (as the Prince), 1920. Ballets Suédois. Photo Isabey. | src BnF, Bibliothèque-musée de l’Opéra via res musica 
Le danseur Jean Börlin in ‘Maison de fous’ (as the Prince), 1920. Ballets Suédois. Photo Isabey. | src BnF, Bibliothèque-musée de l’Opéra via res musica 
Jean Börlin as the Prince and Jolanda Figoni as The Wise Maiden in Dårhuset 1920. Dansmuseet IG
Jean Börlin som Prinsen och Jolanda Figoni som Den kloka flickan i Dårhuset 1920
Jean Börlin as the Prince and Jolanda Figoni as The Wise Maiden in Dårhuset, 1920. | Dansmuseet on IG

Adam et Eve; tableau vivant

Man Ray :: Ciné-Sketch; Adam and Eve (Marcel Duchamp and Bronia Perlmutter), 1924. Gelatin silver print, on carte postale, printed in the 1930s. | src Christie’s & Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philamuseum)

In 1924 Francis Picabia asked Bronia to participate in a production, Ciné Sketch, that he and René Clair were putting on after the Relache ballet on New Year’s Eve. Bronia agreed, and she and Marcel Duchamp appeared nude —Duchamp did have a strategically placed fig leaf— in a living tabloid of Lucas Cranach’s Adam and Eve, which Man Ray photographed.

Ciné Sketch (1924) was a theatrical diversion conceived by Francis Picabia and René Clair, in which Marcel Duchamp and the Jewish-Polish model Bronia Perlmutter mime the figures of Adam and Eve in a tableau vivant of the Temptation after a painting by Cranach. Ciné-Sketch was performed only once, at the conclusion of Relache (by Ballets Suédois) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on New Year’s Eve 1924.

Carina Ari dans la danse d’Anitra

Carina Ari (*) dans la danse d’Anitra, Divertissement, 1921. Photo Isabey © BmO / BnF. | src Les Ballets Suédois 1920-1925. Une compagnie d’avant-garde (2014) at Palais Garnier
(*) Maria Karina Viktoria Jansson (Stockholm, 1897 – Buenos Aires, 1970)
Studio Setzer (Wien) :: Carina Ari [Maria Karina Viktoria Jansson (Stockholm, 1897 – Buenos Aires, 1970)] in Anitra’s dance, 1922 | src Dansmuseet
Carina Ari i Anitras dans, Svenska Baletten, foto: Studio Isabey, Paris, ca. 1922. | src Dansmuseet · IG