Edward Steichen :: Thérèse Duncan, adopted daughter of Isadora Duncan, on the Acropolis, Athens, 1921. From Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, and the Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, 2007. / src: pinterest, original src, thanks to reality asylum

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Nijinska · Goncharova · 1924

Bronislava Nijinska, Natalia Goncharova and unidentified dancers in ‘Night on the Bare Mountain’, 1924. Claude Harris blindstamp on lower left
 Bronislava Nijinska Collection and Ballets Russes De Serge Diaghilev (Library of Congress)

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.

/ src: L. of Congress:
Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev

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Cutting from a scrapbook created by Gilbert Barker: photograph of
Tamara Karsavina in the title role of Fokine’s The Firebird [L’Oiseau de
feu], 1910.
Karsavina’s costume was designed by Léon Bakst; it presented her in a
tall plumed headdress adorned with long plaits, wearing ‘harem-style’
trousers.  Photo: Bertram Park / src: Royal Ballet School

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