«Lo Hesse was active in Munich and Berlin between 1916 and 1920. Her dances relied heavily on extravagantly exotic costumes designed mostly by the German expressionist artist Walter Schnackenberg.»
Lo Hesse by Hanns Holdt
Tag: costume design
Sasha (Alexander Stewart) ::
Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, 1928. “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 1926-27 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
Underwood & Underwood :: Russian ballet dancer Alice Nikitina as
La Chatte, 1928 in “La
Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat), a ten-minute piece
with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine
Pevsner. It was created in 1926-27 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.
/ Photo courtesy: Getty Images
Alicia Nikitina as the Cat in Ballets Russes’ “La Chatte”, ca. 1927. It was created in 1926-27 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. / src: Bibliotheque Nationale de France via Flickr
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Costume design by Adrian for the American musical drama The Great Ziegfeld directed by Robert Z. Leonard, 1936 / source
Hester Dean in costume designed by Adrian for the American musical drama The Great Ziegfeld directed by Robert Z. Leonard, 1936 / source
Costume designs shown in the Tatler, 1917. Chu Chin Chow is a musical comedy written, produced and directed by Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, based (with minor embellishments) on the story of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. The piece premièred at His Majesty’s Theatre in London on 3 August 1916 and ran for five years and a total of 2,238 performances.
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Sasha
(Alexander Stewart)
:: Photograph showing Alice Nikitina and Serge Lifar in the ballet ‘La Chatte’, 1927 from the book The Russian Ballet by Walter Archibald Propert, New York, 1932 / source: Crossett Library
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