images that haunt us
Ninette de Valois (centre back) as Cupidon in a series of divertissements entitled Fanatics of Pleasure with Lydia Lopokova and Léonide Massine (centre) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1922. Photographer unknown. / source: Royal Ballet School
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
Vassar college girls practising their Greek dances, circa 1923 / source and hi-res: WHI
Dancer Vera Nemtchinova, 1940. The dancer performs an arabesque in a short tutu.Biographical/Historical note: The Ballets Russes Australian season was from 30th December 1939 to 19 September 1940. / source:
Claude Harris :: Eugene Lapitsky & Bronislava Nijinska as The Bandits in On the Road, 1925. Nijinska’s Théâtre Chorégraphique.
Dancer Alicia Markova as the Nightingale in Balanchine’s Le Chant du Rossignol [Song of the Nightingale], 1925, with music by Stravinsky and designs by Matisse. From a
programme for the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, 1925. Originally
choreographed by Massine in 1920, the ballet was revised as a vehicle
for the very young Alicia Markova. Photographer unknown. / src: Royal Ballet
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Ashibe Odori, 1910′s
Maiko (apprentice geisha) Yachiyo II of Osaka, dressed for the Ashibe Odori, the public dances of the Nanchi Gokagai (Southern five geisha districts), which were first performed in November 1888. The geiko (geisha) of Osaka are known for their “hera-hera odori” or dances that feature acrobatic stunts such as handstands. / src: Blue Ruin
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