Egyptian prayer, 1920s

Nikolai Ivanovich Svishtov aka Nikolai Svishtov-Paola :: Egyptian prayer (A. Shapovalova), early 1920s. Original photographic print. Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926, nº 299. RGALI. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement

Role of Gesture in a Pose, 1920s

Photographer unknown. Three studies for the ‘Role of Gesture in a Defined Pose’. One of the assigned research themes at the Choreological Laboratory for 1924-26. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement
Photographer unknown. Three studies for the ‘Role of Gesture in a Defined Pose’. One of the assigned research themes at the Choreological Laboratory for 1924-26. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement
Photographer unknown. Three studies for the ‘Role of Gesture in a Defined Pose’. One of the assigned research themes at the Choreological Laboratory for 1924-26. | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement

Itta Penzo · Bridge on demi-point

N. Vlas'evsky :: Itta Penzo. Bridge on demi-point, 1926. © Collection Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow. Original photographic print, signed: “Vlas’evsky”. Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926. | src Het Nieuwe Instituut: Space Embodied. The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930
N. Vlas’evsky ~ Itta Penzo. Bridge on demi-point, 1926 © Collection Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow. Original photographic print, signed: “Vlas’evsky”. Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926 | src Nicoletta Misler : The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930
N. Vlas'evsky :: Itta Penzo. Bridge on demi-point, 1926. © Collection Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow. Original photographic print, signed: “Vlas’evsky”. Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926. | src Het Nieuwe Instituut: Space Embodied. The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930
N. Vlas’evsky ~ Itta Penzo. Bridge on demi-point, 1926 © Collection Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow | src Space Embodied. The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930 at Het Nieuwe Instituut

Itta Penzo in the role of Taiakh

N. Vlas’evsky :: Itta Penzo in the role of Taiakh in the ballet Joseph the Beautiful, 1926. Artist’s photographic print, signed: “Vlas’evsky”. Music by S. Vasilenko, designs by B. Erdman and choreography by K. Goleizovsky for the Odessa Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926. | src Nicoletta Misler's “The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930”
N. Vlas’evsky ~ Itta Penzo in the role of Taiakh in the ballet Joseph the Beautiful, 1926. Artist’s photographic print, signed: “Vlas’evsky”. Music by S. Vasilenko, designs by B. Erdman and choreography by K. Goleizovsky for the Odessa Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926 | src Nicoletta Misler’s “The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930”
N. Vlas'evsky :: Itta Penzo. Bridge on demi-point, 1926. © Collection Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow. Original photographic print, signed: “Vlas’evsky”. Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926. | src Het Nieuwe Instituut: Space Embodied. The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930
N. Vlas’evsky ~ Itta Penzo. Bridge on demi-point, 1926. © Collection Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow. Original photographic print, signed: “Vlas’evsky”. Catalogue of the second “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1926. | src Space Embodied. The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930 at Het Nieuwe Instituut

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

Rosalia Chladek, 1928

Atelier Kolliner (Wien) :: R. Chladek dancing the Präludium from A. Corelli’s Klagelied at the Hellerau-Laxenburg School, 1928

Stamped on the photograph: “Atelier Kolliner Wien”. Catalogue of the fourth “Art of Movement” exhibition, 1928, within Nos. 451-452 or 522-23. Collection of Pavel Khoroshilov, Moscow. | source Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement

Ekaterina Lopatin, 1922

Alexander Grinberg :: Dancer Ekaterina Lopatin. A scenic study, 1922. Vera Maja Studio, Moscow. | src FotoSoyuz ~ Getty Images
Alexander Grinberg :: Dancer Ekaterina Lopatin. A scenic study, 1922. Vera Maja Studio, Moscow. | src FotoSoyuz ~ Getty Images
Aleksandr Grinberg :: Dancer Ekaterina Lopatin. A scenic study, 1922. Vera Maya Studio, Moscow. | src FotoSoyuz ~ Getty Images
Aleksandr Danilovich Grinberg :: Dancer Ekaterina Lopatin, Vera Maya Studio, Moscow, 1922. In 1928 the work was exhibited at IV exhibition 'The Art of Movement' at the State Academy of Art and Science. | src FotoSoyuz · Getty Images
Aleksandr Danilovich Grinberg :: Dancer Ekaterina Lopatin, Vera Maya Studio, Moscow, 1922. In 1928 the work was exhibited at IV exhibition ‘The Art of Movement’ at the State Academy of Art and Science. | src FotoSoyuz · Getty Images

Nina Vassilyeva, 1923

Alexander Grinberg :: Nina Vassilyeva from Vera Maya’s Studio, 1923. Bromoil with transfer. Private collection. | src Russian photographic Avant-Garde of the 1920s and 1930s