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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

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A Geisha biting a Tenugui, 1920′s
“[She] rises to one knee and puts one end of her [tenugui] hand towel in her teeth, pulling on it with her right hand. This is a typical Kabuki gesture for a female character in the throes of a deep emotion.” According to “The Art of Kabuki” edited by Samuel L. Leiter, first published in 1979, page 114. / src: Blue Ruin