Dancer Ninette de Valois in a 1925 revival of Fokine’s Les Papillons [The Butterflies] (1913). The annotation reads: ‘Ninette de Valois with Diaghilev’ [ie the Ballets Russes]. Photographer unknown./ src: Royal Ballet
Tag: studio photography
Signed photograph of Ninette de Valois in You’d be Surprised,
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, January-February, 1923. The show
transferred to London’s Alhambra Theatre, and ran for nearly 200
performances, until May 1923. Photo: Hana / source: Royal Ballet
Dancer Lydia Sokolova
(1896–1974), born Hilda Munnings, was an English
ballerina who danced with the Diaghilev Ballets Russes for over 15 years
(from 1913), and became a Principal of the Company. Here, as the Miller’s Wife in Massine’s Le Tricorne [The Three-Cornered Hat], 1919. Photo: Lenare. / source: Royal Dance School
Claude Harris :: Eugene Lapitsky & Bronislava Nijinska as The Bandits in On the Road, 1925. Nijinska’s Théâtre Chorégraphique.
Moffett Studio :: Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn in Ourieda, a Romance of the Desert. This was the first duet performed by Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn, 1914 / src: Denishawn Collection
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Kichiya-musubi, 1905
A Geisha dressed in the Genroku style, fashionable among Tokyo Geisha around 1905-1908. She is showing her obi, tied in the Kichiya-musubi style, a knot named after Kamimura Kichiya (or Uemura Kichiya I) who was a popular Kabuki Actor during the Genroku period (1680′s).
The Kichiya-musubi was in fact a particularly famous and popular knot, mentioned specifically in a number of poems. The knot is a relatively simple one, but with small lead weights hidden in the obi, weighing down the ends of the bow, so they drooped “like the ears of a … Chinese lion-dog.” / src: Blue Ruin
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Apeda Studio (NY) :: Daisy Morgan posed in a harem costume, undated. / source: NYPL
Otto Sarony :: Cecilia ‘Cissie’ Loftus as Ophelia in Hamlet / src: broadway.cas.sc.edu
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