Tag: dancer, Tänzerin, danseuse, danzatrice, bailarina

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

Dancer in long skirt by Michaelis

Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ [Female dancer in long dark skirt, dancing with clenched hands], 1940s | src NGA
Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ untitled [Female dancer in long, dark skirt], 1940s | src NGA
Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ untitled [Female dancer (leaping) leaning back], 1940s | src NGA
Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ untitled [Female dancer in long dark skirt, dancing with clenched hands], 1940s | src NGA

Rigmor Rasmussen in Der Zug nach dem Westen

Atelier Balázs ~ Rigmor Rasmussen in the revue ‘Der Zug nach dem Westen’ (The Train to the West), Berlin, 1926 | src getty images

Tanzmaske “Sie” für Bibo

Minya Diez-Dürhkoop :: Tanzmaske “Sie” von Lavinia Schulz. Costume designs by Lavinia Schultz and Walter Holdt for ‘Bibo’, 1924. | src MK&G · Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)
Minya Diez-Dürhkoop :: Tanzmaske “Sie” von Lavinia Schulz. Costume designs by Lavinia Schultz and Walter Holdt for ‘Bibo’, 1924. | src MK&G · Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg)

Cat masks by Leonor Fini

Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Ballet de Paris, 1949. Ferrotyped gelatin silver print | src Christie’s
Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Ballet de Paris, 1949. Ferrotyped gelatin silver print | src Christie’s
Brassaï (Gyula Halász) (1899-1984) ~ Untitled [woman with cat mask by Leonor Fini], Paris, 1930s | src stephen ellcock
Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Ballet de Paris, 1949. Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Ballet de Paris, 1949. Ferrotyped gelatin silver prints | src Christie’s

Les Demoiselles de la Nuit

Ballet in one act with choreography by Roland Petit, libretto by Jean Anouilh, music by Jean Françaix, and scenery & costume design (including the ballet’s fantastic cat masks) by Leonor Fini. It premiered on 22 May 1948 by Ballets de Paris at the Théâtre Marigny (Paris), with Fonteyn, Petit, and Hamilton. It tells the story of a musician who falls in love with his beautiful cat Agathe, who has assumed semi-human form. Agathe tries to be faithful to her human lover but is lured away by the sound of tomcats and the call of freedom. She leaps off the rooftops and the musician falls to his death as he tries to grab hold of her. She falls after him and they are united in death. | src The Oxford Dictionary of Dance

Brassaï (1899-1984) ~ Dancer wearing a cat costume designed by Leonor Fini for Les Demoiselles de la Nuit, 1948 | src ODLP ~ l’œil de la photographie

Anita Berber as Bingha

Alexander Binder :: Anita Berber as Bingha, costume designed by Walter Schnackenberg, 1922. Schnackenberg was known as the “Toulouse-Lautrec of Germany”. | src 50 watts