Ruth Bayton by Atelier Balasz
Tag: dancer, Tänzerin, danseuse, danzatrice, bailarina
Margaret Chapple by M. Michaelis
Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ Bodenwieser Ballet performance of the handicraft scene in Pilgrimage of Truth, featuring Margaret Chapple, ca. 1950 | src NLA
According to source, the image above may have been a promotional photograph taken for the Bodenwieser Ballet’s tour of South Africa in 1950
Rigmor Rasmussen by Balasz
Coralie Hinkley in Indian Boy
Shona Dunlop in Cain and Abel
Lo Hesse, ca. 1918
Lo Hesse was active in Munich and Berlin between 1916 and 1920. Her dances relied heavily on extravagantly exotic costumes designed mostly by the German expressionist artist Walter Schnackenberg. | src Flickr
Lo Hesse by Hanns Holdt
«Lo Hesse was active in Munich and Berlin between 1916 and 1920. Her dances relied heavily on extravagantly exotic costumes designed mostly by the German expressionist artist Walter Schnackenberg.»
Sasha (Alexander Stewart) ::
Alicia Nikitina & Serge Lifar in Ballets Russes’ La Chatte, 1928. “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 1926-27 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
Nude studies of Rigmor Rasmussen
Underwood & Underwood :: Russian ballet dancer Alice Nikitina as
La Chatte, 1928 in “La
Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat), a ten-minute piece
with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine
Pevsner. It was created in 1926-27 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.
/ Photo courtesy: Getty Images
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