Women in bathing suits at the beach, one bending back, 1930 / src: Time-Life
Tag: bending backwards, bending back
Harris & Ewing :: Three on a rock, 1922. [George Harris and Martha Ewing’s photo studio].
Washington DC, 1919. / src Library of Congress via
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Senior girls from “Leonians” pose on the lawn for photographers, doing a Swedish Drill. Australia, 1940’s / src: physical culture
Weston and Mather, 1923
Maurice Goldberg ::
Hindu dancer
Ryllis Barnes Simpson, aka Hasoutra, posing as the snake woman, New York, 1926 / src Historical Ziegfeld Group
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Tanzschülerin, 11-1929
Original title: Aus dem Coreographischen Institut Laban in Berlin-Grunewald! Schönheit im Tanz. | related post on tumblr
Akarova in Allegro Barbaro, 1929
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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Hilary Napier and Shona Dunlop
Horst P. Horst ::
Dancers Jack Holland and June Hart dancing, Vanity Fair, 1935. In the 1930s, dance team Jack Holland and June Hart appeared in clubs around Manhattan as well as in the films Dance Band (1935), Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra (1936) and Rubinoff and His Violin (1939). / src:
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