Photograph of Ninette de Valois as ‘un joueur de volant’ [Badminton player] in Nijnska’s Les Facheux The Annoying Ones, given by the Diaghilev Ballets Russes. It was based on Molière’s libretto for Beauchamps’ much earlier work of the same name (1661). Photographer unknown. | src RBS/STA/NDV/PHO/
Newscutting featuring Ninette de Valois performing with the Diaghilev Ballets Russes as Little Red Riding Hood in Aurora’s Wedding (1923), which was based on Act III of Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty. Photographer unknown. | src Royal Ballet School/NDV/EPH
Todd Wilson Studios :: Black and white soft-focus shot of Judy Gilmore wearing a hat with a cigarette in her mouth. Signed with a handwritten note in French (dated 1928). 11.04.1905 | src Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Photograph Collection at ZSR Library
Russian dancer Felia Doubrovska, or Felia Dubrovskaya [Russian: Фелия Дубровская], real name Фелицата Леонтьевна Длужневская, (Felizata or Felicata Dlouzhnevskain); born in St Petersburg, on February 13, 1896. Dancer in Balanchine ballet and Diaghilev Ballets Russes, ca. 1929
Nickolas Muray :: Unidentified dancer. No date known. | src Eastman Museum
Nickolas Muray :: Hilarity, ca. 1921. Bromide print. Nude woman except for a thin black gauze. She is poised on her toes with arms outstretched and her head back, smiling.Mount verso: “Title: Hilarity, By Nickolas Muray. 124 Macdougal Street New York.” | src National Museum of American History