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Claire Bauroff as Countess Zichy

Trude Fleischmann :: Dancer Claire Bauroff, full-figure portrait, naked in a dance scene as Countess Zichy, 1923. Published by ‘Die Dame’ April 1923. | originally posted on and censored by tumblr

Anita Berber, 1923

József Pécsi :: Dancer Anita Berber, for Introduction to dances of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy, a collaboration between Anita Berber & Sebastian Droste, Berlin 1923. Published in Revue des Monats. (digitally retouched by la petite melancolie) | censored by tumblr from haunted·by·storytelling

Lo Hesse in ‘Ahnfrau’, 1924

Franz Xaver Setzer :: German dancer Lo Hesse as ‘Ahnfrau’ (Ancestress) in a costume designed by Walter Schnackenberg, Vienna, 1924. (Photographie von Archiv Setzer-Tschiedel) | src Getty Images

S. Georges :: Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, ca.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 1926-1927 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 

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Hilary Napier and Shona Dunlop

Margaret Michaelis-Sachs :: Encounter [Shona Dunlop and Hilary Napier in ‘Seastudy’] ca. 1947 | src NGA
Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902-1985) :: Encounter [Shona Dunlop and Hilary Napier in ‘Seastudy’], 1947 | src NGA