Aeolian Harp’s costume, 1921

Interpretation of the Aeolian Harp’s costume from the Ballets Suédois “L’homme et son désir” [The Man and His Desire] after Audrey Parr’s design from 1921. | src Dansmuseet on IG
Kaj Smith in Aeolian Harp’s costume from the Ballets Suédois “L’homme et son désir” [The Man and His Desire], ca. 1921. | src Dansmuseet on IG

Dancer Rumnev or Rumnieff, 1924

Nini & Carry Heß :: The Russian dancer Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Ziakin (1899-1965), known as Rumnev or Rumnieff. Published in ‘Die Dame’ 21/1924. | src Getty Images
Nini & Carry Hess :: Alexander Rumnev (Tänzer), 1924, ullstein bild collection. | src Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität

Pierrot och Pierrette, 1918

Jean Börlin and Ebon Strandin in Pierrot and Pierrette, photo: Atelier Moderne, Copenhagen, 1918. [original: Jean Börlin och Ebon Strandin i Pierrot och Pierrette, foto: Atelier Moderne, Köpenhamn, 1918.] | src Dansmuseet on IG
Jean Börlin and Ebon Strandin in Pierrot and Pierrette, photo: Atelier Moderne, Copenhagen, 1918. [original: Jean Börlin och Ebon Strandin i Pierrot och Pierrette, foto: Atelier Moderne, Köpenhamn, 1918.] | src Dansmuseet on IG

Jean Börlin (1920s) by Isabey

Jean Börlin i Skating Rink, Svenska Baletten, foto: Studio Isabey, Paris, 1922. | src Dansmuseet on IG
Jean Börlin i Skating Rink, Svenska Baletten, foto: Studio Isabey, Paris, 1922. | src Dansmuseet on IG
Jean Börlin i Fågelhandlaren av Svenska Baletten, foto Studio Isabey, Paris, 1923
Jean Börlin i Fågelhandlaren av Svenska Baletten, foto: Studio Isabey, Paris, 1923 | src Dansmuseet on IG
Jean Börlin i Det sällsamma tornerspelet av Svenska Baletten (Börlin in The Strange Tournament by the Swedish Ballet), foto: Studio Isabey, Paris, 1924 | src Dansmuseet • IG
Jean Börlin i Det sällsamma tornerspelet av Svenska Baletten (Börlin in The Strange Tournament by the Swedish Ballet), foto: Studio Isabey, Paris, 1924 | src Dansmuseet • IG

Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers

Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. Season 1935-1936. [photo: Shawn’s men dancers in Wolf Dance (used later in his ballet Feather of the Dawn) by Putnam and Valentine, Los Angeles, 1918 (src NYPL) | src Iowa University Libraries

‘Der Idiot’, 1952

Siegfried Enkelmann :: ‘Der Idiot’, 1952. Dancers Wiet Pilar and Harald Horn from the Berlin Ballet performing a scene from „The Idiot“, a ballet based on Dostoyevsky’s novel. Print annotated in pencil (on verso) | src eBay

Tilly Losch et Toni Birkmeyer

Photo Abbé. Tilly Losch et Toni Birkmeyer de l’Opéra de Vienne. The two young and magnificent dancers that all Paris acclaimed last year. Original: Les deux jeunes et superbes danseurs que tout Paris applaudit l’an dernier. Le Théâtre et Comœdia illustré, Juin-Septembre 1924. | src BnF ~ Gallica
Photo Abbé. Tilly Losch et Toni Birkmeyer de l’Opéra de Vienne. The two young and magnificent dancers that all Paris acclaimed last year. Original: Les deux jeunes et superbes danseurs que tout Paris applaudit l’an dernier. Le Théâtre et Comœdia illustré, nº 36, Juin-Septembre 1924. | src BnF ~ Gallica

A.von Swaine in ‘De Profundis’

Siegfried Enkelmann :: Alexander von Swaine in ‘De Profundis’, 1937. Original Print (detail). | src eBay
Siegfried Enkelmann :: Alexander von Swaine in ‘De Profundis’, 1937. Original Print. | src eBay
Iconic portrait of dancer Alexander von Swaine. This image was chosen as the cover of a catalog produced for Enkelmann’s retrospective in Munich in April – June 1978 | src eBay