Tag: dancer, Tänzerin, danseuse, danzatrice, bailarina

Grit Hegesa by Atelier Binder

Atelier Binder ~ Grit Hegesa sitting cross-legged with cigarette holder. Die Dame 24/1921 | src getty images
Atelier Binder ~ Grit Hegesa modelling dress with wide sleeves and hat, 1921 | src getty images
Alexander Binder ~ Grit Hegesa. Vintage postcard 452/2 | src alamy
Atelier Binder ~ Portrait of the dancer Grit Hegesa, 1921 | src getty images
Atelier Binder ~ Grit Hegesa Schneidersitz mit Zigarettenspitze. In: Die Dame 24/1921 | src getty images

Toni Freeden by Frieda Riess

Frieda Gertrud Riess (1890-1954) ~ German dancer Toni Freeden in a dancing pose, 1927 | src getty images
Atelier Riess ~ Toni Freeden-Belling [in Tanzpose]. Der Querschnitt, B.7, H.5, Mai 1927

Grit Hegesa by Mahrenholz

Rolf Mahrenholz ~ Portrait of the dancer [and actress] Grit Hegesa. Published in Die Dame 1/1925 | src getty images
Rolf Mahrenholz ~ Die Tänzerin Grit Hegesa, Porträt. In: Die Dame 1/1925. Aufnahme: Rolf Mahrenholz | src getty images

Baker by Hoyningen-Huene

George Hoyningen-Huene ~ Josephine Baker for Vogue Studio, 10 November 1927 | src Yale university library
George Hoyningen-Huene ~ Josephine Baker [in a wig by Antoine de Paris] for Vogue Studio, 10th November 1927 [detail]
George Hoyningen-Huene ~ Josephine Baker for Vogue Studio, November 1927 (full size) | src Yale university library
George Hoyningen-Huene ~ Josephine Baker for Vogue Studio, November 1927 | src Yale university library

The White Cat · Ballets Russes

‘The White Cat’ in ‘Le Mariage d’Aurore’ (Aurora’s Wedding), Covent Garden Russian Ballet, 1938 (detail from original photograph) © Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne

In 1936 Australian audiences witnessed firsthand the spectacle of the Ballets Russes, with the arrival of the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet. This company, lead by Colonel Wassily de Basil, was one of a number of Ballets Russes companies that were formed in the wake of the dissolution of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes following his death in 1929. This first tour concluded in 1937 and was followed by two more tours by de Basil’s Ballets Russes companies, the Covent Garden Russian Ballet in 1938-1939 and Original Ballet Russe in 1939-1940.

‘The White Cat’ in ‘Le Mariage d’Aurore’ (Aurora’s Wedding), Covent Garden Russian Ballet, 1938 © Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne
‘The White Cat’ in ‘Le Mariage d’Aurore’, Covent Garden Russian Ballet, 1938 © Australian Performing Arts Collection
Image kindly provided by Arts Centre Melbourne | Wurundjeri Country