Two barefoot poses, 1920s

Photographer unknown, Two barefoot poses outdoors. Original print. OE [Otton Engel’s repository, Moscow.
Formerly in the collection of Irina Malakhova.] | src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

Dancer Lea Niako, 1928

Dancer Lea Niako (born Lea Maria Kruse) photographed in 1928. | src Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança on Google Arts

Manual for artistic acrobatics

Photographer unknown, Stationary pose on the elbows, late 1920s. Manual for a course in artistic acrobatics. Art of Movement State Courses (of Valeriia Tsvetaeva). VTs
V. Tsvetaeva, Stationary pose on elbows, late 1920s. Art of Movement State Courses (of Valeriia Tsvetaeva) for the Department of Circus and Variety Theatre at MGTT. Pencil on paper, initialled: “V. Ts.”
src Nicoletta Misler’s The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930

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

Mary Wigman in a dance scene, 1936

Tänzerin, Tanzpaedagogin und Choreografin Mary Wigman (Eigentlich Marie Wiegmann). Ganzkoerperaufnahme, in einer Tanzszene, 1936. | Dancer, dance teacher ad choreographer Mary Wigman (b. Marie Wiegmann). Full body shot, in a dance scene [scene maybe Pastorale from Shifting Landscape, 1929], 1936. | src and hi-res Getty Images