Unknown men, Sweden, undated. / src
Tag: couple
The Kiss, Folies Bergère, 1927
Atelier Setzer* :: German dancers Joachim von Seewitz and Lo Hesse, Vienna, 1918 / from: Sport und Salon
Dancers Lo Hesse and Joachim von Seewitz were active in Munich and Berlin between 1916 and 1920. Their dances relied heavily on extravagantly exotic costumes designed mostly by the Munich expressionist artist Walter Schnackenberg. The couple favoured fantastically Oriental, Venetian, Spanish, or rococo costumes that had the effect of making dance a sign of refined luxury and exquisite voluptuousness.
*Franz Xaver Setzer
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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
Peggy O’Neil, Reginald Mason, and Christine Norman in Peg O’ My Heart, 1914. / source:
tales of a madcap heiress
“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.”
Buster Keaton
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Photograph of Michel Fokine as Prince Ivan and Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird in
‘L’Oiseau de Feu’, 1910. Music by Igor Stravinsky; libretto by Michel Fokine; sets by Aleksandr
Golovin, with additional costumes by Léon Bakst; premiere on 25 June
1910, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris.
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Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev
more [+] The Firebird posts / more [+] Tamara Karsavina posts
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