Dancer flying free, ca. 1927

S. Rybin :: A young woman jumps, leaps, takes to the air (She indeed flies free). We do not know her name, only that she flies in the free dance studio of Vera Maya in Moscow, perhaps in 1927. Courtesy A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Moscow. | src Space Embodied – Het Nieuwe Instituut (the Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930)

The Russian Art of Movement

Nicoletta Misler: The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930 Umberto Allemandi & Co. (January 2018)
One of the many mages from the book that represent the role of movement in dance, in gymnastics, in Russian Avant-garde. The book is the result of research that began in the late 1970s and culminated in the 2011 publication in Moscow of V Natsjale Bilo Telo (In the Beginning was the Body), on the 1920s experiments in movement in the Soviet Union. | src Allemandi

schwalben / hirondelles / swallows

Schwalben. Aufnahme von Adalbert Defner, veröffentlicht als postkarte im eigenverlag. | Swallows. Photo by Adalbert Defner, self-published as a postcard. | src apfelauge on flickr
Schwalben. Aufnahme von Adalbert Defner, veröffentlicht als postkarte im eigenverlag. | Swallows. Photo by Adalbert Defner, self-published as a postcard. | src apfelauge on flickr