Tag: bending backwards

Russian dancer Felia Doubrovska or Dubrovskaya, 1929

Russian dancer Felia Doubrovska, or Felia Dubrovskaya [Russian: Фелия Дубровская], real name Фелицата Леонтьевна Длужневская, (Felizata or Felicata Dlouzhnevskain); born in St Petersburg, on February 13, 1896. Dancer in Balanchine ballet and Diaghilev Ballets Russes, ca. 1929

Tilly Losch by Hans Böhm, 1925

Hans Böhm & Alexander Bengsch :: Tilly Losch dancing freely in a backyard (?) in Salzburg.
Children watching, ca. 1925 | src and © Theater Museum, Vienna (Wien).
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Annette Kellerman, ca. 1910

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Elias Goldensky [American, b. Russia, 1867–1943] :: Autralian swimmer and actress Annette Kellerman, ca. 1910. | src George Eastman Museum via hauntedbystorytelling.tumblr.com

Ruth and Ella Myles aka Beauty Poses, British Pathé, 1935 / src of GIF: gypsyastronaut

Various shots of acrobats Ruth and Ella Myles performing graceful balances and contortions in the studio. They are both extremely supple! Both wear white swimsuits with black belts and tie and the neck. Their final feat involves one girl doing a back bend and staying in that crab position while the other stands on her pelvis and does a back bend there!

more information and full video, at British Pathé also in YouTube