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Lubovska, January 1918

Arnold Genthe :: Lubovska*, 17 January, 1918. Glass negative. Library of Congress | src and hi-res Flickr
Arnold Genthe :: Lubovska*, 17 January, 1918. Glass negative. Library of Congress | src and hi-res Flickr
Arnold Genthe :: Lubovska*, 17 January, 1918. Glass negative. Library of Congress | src and hi-res Flickr
(*) Lubovska, aka Desirée Lubovska or Desiree Lubowska, born Winniefred Foote on June 21st, 1893 in Minnesota

Lubovska, 1920s

George Grantham Bain :: Lubovska*, 1920-1925. * Lubowska or Lubovska or Désirée Lubovska, aka Mme Lubowska was the stage name of American dancer Winniefred Foote. Blind-stamp: Binger STUDIO. Bain News Services Collection | src Library of Congress

Lubovska, NY Tribune, 1918

Lubovska**, international première danseuse, formerly with the Daghilieff (sic) Ballet. | src NY Tribune, 09/15/1918 page 8
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** Lubowska or Lubovska or Désirée Lubovska, aka Mme Lubowska was the stage name of American dancer Winniefred Foote.

Désirée Lubovska · ca. 1915

Underwood & Underwood :: Portrait of ‘Russian’ dancer Désirée Lubowska [aka Mme Lubowska or Lubovska], full-length portrait, standing, left profile, in Cleopatra costume, 9 September 1915. (Désirée Lubovska was not actually Russian. It was the stage name of American born dancer Winniefred Foote). | src Library of Congress
White Studio (NY) :: Portrait of ‘Russian’ dancer Désirée Lubowska [aka Mme Lubowska or Lubovska], full-length portrait, standing, right profile, in Cleopatra costume, 1915. | src Les sources d’une île

Desiree Lubovska, also Desiree Lubowska, was the professional name of American dancer Winniefred Foote (1893 – 1974). Foote was born in Minnesota. She changed her name, adopted an accent in her speech, and created a backstory of dancing in Russia; she also said that she studied Egyptian art at the British Museum. She went on a diet and fitness regimen in pursuit of a more angular physique, and her dances reflect this focus. ‘I finally felt I was one of them, a reincarnated spirit of the Nile’; she said in a 1921 interview.

Text adapted from the Wikipedia entry (in English)

Ballet dancer Desiree Loubovska / Lubovska. Egyptian dance of mourning taken from tombs of Egypt. Press photo by White Studios (1916) | src Worthpoint ~ Worthopedia

The text “Egyptian dance of mourning taken from tombs of Egypt” can be read on the verso of the photograph, written in pencil amongst the stamps of press agencies.