Tag: bending backwards, bending back

Exercising in the Trümpy school

Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Women doing exercises in the Trümpy school, 1934. Published in Die Dame 9/1934 | src getty images
Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Woman doing exercises in the Trümpy school, 1934. Published by Die Dame 9/1934 | src getty images
Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Woman doing exercises to make the hip elastic and to develop a sense of equilibrium according to the Trümpy school, 1934. Published in Die Dame 9/1934 & Bazar 4/1935 | src getty images
Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Women doing exercises in the Trümpy school, 1934 | src getty images
Alfred Eisenstaedt ~ Woman doing exercises in the Trümpy school, 1934 | src getty images

Mia Slavenska bending back

Mia Čorak Slavenska (1916-2002): one of the greatest ballerinas of all time who was also called a masterpiece of human mechanics Photographer’s blindstamp on right bottom (G. Reputin?) Zagreb | src Zadovoljna

The dance of The Jungle Book

The dancer Ziuta Buczyńska in the dance The Jungle Book. Situational photograph taken in an atelier, 1937 | src National Archives of Poland
The dancer Ziuta Buczyńska in the dance The Jungle Book. Situational photograph taken in an atelier, 1937 | src Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
The dancer Ziuta Buczyńska in the dance The Jungle Book. Situational photograph taken in an atelier, 1937 | src Polish National Archives

Women gymnastics · 1930s

Rainer Sopanen ~ Voimistelua (Gymnastics), 1933. JOKA (Journalistinen kuva-arkisto)
Gymnastics photo from book “Soita sinä, me voimistelemme” | src Museovirasto
Women gymnastics (Finnish : Naisvoimistelua). Women gymnastics at Mrs. Verna Pahlman’s courses. Photo: Aira (JOKA)
In : Suomen Kuvalehti 1930 nr. 21, 956 | src Museovirasto
Original scan of image on top from the book “Soita sinä, me voimistelemme”

Acrobatic studies, 1927

Acrobatic study in the style of Alexander Grinberg, 1927 (detail)
Acrobatic study in the style of Alexander Grinberg, 1927 | src Литфонд Auction house
Acrobatic study in the style of Alexander Grinberg, 1927 | src Литфонд (Literary Fund) Auction house
Acrobatic couple, 1927 | src Литфонд Auction house

Wehrle in der Haller Revue

Helen Wehrle (Tänzerin USA), als Schmetterling in der Haller Revue ‘Wann und Wo’, erschienen in: Nr. 38/1927 und ‘Uhu’ 2/1927; Foto: Ernst Schneider (Berlin). | src Getty Images
Helen or Helene Wehrle (Tänzerin USA) in ihrem akrobatischen Tanz in der Herman Haller Revue ‘Wann und Wo’. Foto: Ernst Schneider, erschinen Nr. 38/1927 | Getty Images
Helene or Helen Wehrle (Tänzerin, USA) in ihrem akrobatischen Tanz in der Herman Haller Revue ‘Wann und Wo’, UHU Magazin 4/1928, Foto: Ernst Schneider | Getty Images
Helen Wehrle (Tänzerin USA), als Schmetterling in der Herman Haller Revue, ‘Wann und Wo’, erschienen Nr. 38/1927, Foto: Ernst Schneider. | Getty Images

Nudes by George Platt Lynes

George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955) :: Acrobatics, 1941. Photogravure. Stanford Auctioneers / nudes
George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955) :: Acrobatics, 1941. Photogravure. Stanford Auctioneers
George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955) :: Underwear, 1942. Stanford Auctioneers / nudes
George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955) :: Underwear, 1942. Stanford Auctioneers
George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955) :: Black and White, 1952. Photogravure. Stanford Auctioneers
George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955) :: Black and White, 1952. Photogravure. Stanford Auctioneers

Frieda and Louis Berkoff

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Dancer Frieda Berkoff during a leap in the air. Underwood & Underwood. 1920s | src catawiki
Dancers Louis and Frieda Berkoff during a leap in the air. Underwood & Underwood. 1920s | src catawiki
Dancers Louis and Frieda Berkoff during a leap in the air. Underwood & Underwood. 1920s | src catawiki

Press Agency / Newspaper Stamp on the reverse reads: S/644A309 By Underwood and Underwood. / Louise and Frieda Berkoff. Here’s action: How many can do this? / For once in his life “Old Man Gravity”, the well known friend of Isaac Newton, came out second best when Louis and Frieda Berkoff prectised these spectacular flying “steps” of a new Russian dance on the lawn of the Carthay Circle, a Los Angeles suburb.
Photo shows: brother and sister “Up in the air”. An exclusive Underwood photograph. Watch your credit line