images that haunt us
Studio’s signature “Manassé Wien” in the negative, with a vintage paper label with typewritten mention “Zensuriert”. “Foto-Salon ‘Manassé'” copyright stamp, “Wiener Foto-Kurier” agency stamp as well as “Ag. Schostal” agency label, and annotated “Studie” in pencil on the reverse.
Photographer’s copyright stamp with handwritten number “4949” in pencil, annotation “Tanzgruppe Trude Goodwin” and handwritten numbers in pencil on the reverse.
On verso: “Wiener Foto-Kurier” agency stamp, label with text: “Hedy Pfundmayer (sic), Primaballerina de l’opera a Vienne comme ‘Salome'”. Also, several annotations in pencil on the reverse, as: “Berhümte Solo Tänzerin […] die Tänzerin Pfundmaier (sic)”.
The Norwegian actress Sofie Parelius Krohn began her career as a dancer in 1911 at the Norwegian National Theatre. She trained with her mother, who was a choreographer and ballet teacher, and for a time with Michel Fokine. She took leading roles in Max Reinhardt’s productions in Berlin, including Prima Ballerina and Sumurun. Married to Tancred Ibsen, film director and screenwriter and grandson of Henrik Ibsen, she later became one of Norway’s most distinguished stage actresses, appearing in many works by Shaw, Wilde, Shakespeare and Ibsen.
Retrieved from the article:
Der klingende Baum. Eine Berliner Tanzschule. Scherl’s Magazin Band 5, H. 11, November 1929
The Ringing Tree. A Berlin dance school. Scherl’s magazine volume 5, issue 11, November 1929
(*) The archives of the Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, host two identical photographs [as the one above here] of Ruth Sorel Abramowitsch, one is captioned as performing the dance Matka and the other as Salome [respective reference id numbers are 3105/616/15 and 3105/616/16]. Both images are part of the same batch, corresponding to the First International Artistic Solo Dance Competition in Warsaw (June, 1933)
source of all images in this post : Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
source of both images : Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
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