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Sasha (Alexander Stewart) :: Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, 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 1926-27 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

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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