Sylvia Chen, Vera Maya Studio

Alexander Grinberg :: Dancer Silvija Chen (also Silvija Chen). A scenic study, Vera Maya Studio, Moscow, late 1920s. (Photo by Aleksandr Grinberg / FotoSoyuz) | src Getty Images

Sylvia Chen, late 1920s

Aleksandr Grinberg :: Dancer Silvija (Sylvia) Chen, studio of Vera Maya. A scenic study, Moscow, Russia, late 1920s (or ca. 1925). (Photo by Alexander Danilovich Grinberg / Foto Soyuz) | src Getty Images

Dancer Sylvia Chen, late 1920s

Aleksandr Grinberg :: Dancer Silvija (Sylvia) Chen, studio of Vera Maya. A scenic study, Moscow, Russia, late 1920s (or ca. 1925). (Photo by Alexander Danilovich Grinberg / Foto Soyuz) | src Getty Images

Dancer Silvija Chen, 1925-30

Aleksandr Grinberg :: Dancer Silvija Chen (also Sylvia Chen). A scenic study. Studio of Vera Maya, Moscow, Russia, 1925-1929. (FotoSoyuz) | src and hi-res Getty Images

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)

Scenic study, 1928

Aleksandr Danilovich Grinberg :: Scenic study, Vera Maya studio, From the series ‘The Art of movement’, Moscow, Russia, 1928. | Study of Movement, two dancers, The Theatre of Meyerhold.

Ekaterina Lopatin, 1922

Aleksandr Grinberg :: Dancer Ekaterina Lopatin. A scenic study, 1922. Vera Maja Studio, Moscow, Russia, 1920s. | src FotoSoyuz ~ Getty Images
Alexander Grinberg :: Dancer Ekaterina Lopatin. A scenic study, 1922. Vera Maya Studio, Moscow, Russia, 1920s. | src FotoSoyuz ~ Getty Images
Aleksandr Grinberg :: Dancer Ekaterina Lopatin. A scenic study, 1922. Vera Maya Studio, Moscow, Russia, 1920s. | src FotoSoyuz ~ Getty Images

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