Nils Dardels fondskiss till Dårhuset av Svenska Baletten, 1920, foto: Torkel Edenborg. | Nils Dardel’s background sketch for Madhouse by the Swedish Ballet, 1920 • src Dansmuseet on IGDårhuset av Svenska Baletten, ca. 1920 | Madhouse (also, Nut-house) by the Swedish Ballet, ca. 1920 “Om ni inte gillar det kan ni dra åt helvete” | “If you do not like it, you can go to hell” – Ballets Suédois 1920–1925 • src Dansmuseet
Nini & Carry Heß:: The Russian dancer Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Ziakin (1899-1965), known as Rumnev or Rumnieff. Published in ‘Die Dame’ 21/1924. | src Getty ImagesNini & Carry Hess :: Alexander Rumnev (Tänzer), 1924, ullstein bild collection. | src Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität
The Swedish choreographer and dancer Jean Börlin excels with his dramatically charged body language in one of his early solo dances, probably ‘Doomed’ from 1918. | src Dansmuseet on FB
Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. Season 1935-1936. [photo: Shawn’s men dancers in Wolf Dance (used later in his ballet Feather of the Dawn) by Putnam and Valentine, Los Angeles, 1918 (src NYPL) | src Iowa University Libraries
Siegfried Enkelmann :: ‘Der Idiot’, 1952. Dancers Wiet Pilar and Harald Horn from the Berlin Ballet performing a scene from „The Idiot“, a ballet based on Dostoyevsky’s novel. Print annotated in pencil (on verso) | src eBay
Photo Abbé. Tilly Losch et Toni Birkmeyer de l’Opéra de Vienne. The two young and magnificent dancers that all Paris acclaimed last year. Original: Les deux jeunes et superbes danseurs que tout Paris applaudit l’an dernier. Le Théâtre et Comœdia illustré, nº 36, Juin-Septembre 1924. | src BnF ~ Gallica