The madman / Bolero | Maurice Ravel / Ida Rubinstein / Νίκος Καββαδίας, 1928
Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (1885-1960) was a Russian actress, dancer, patron and Belle Époque figure. She commissioned and performed in Maurice...
Dance
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years / Marie van Goethem | Edgar Degas, c. 1881
Francis Schlowsky - Les Jumelles et Degas, 1990 . The Little Fourteen–Year–Old Dancer is a c. 1881 sculpture by Edgar...
Mona Paiva | Photos by Nelly’s, Ακρόπολη, 1927
Nelly’s, Mona Paiva, Acropolis, 1927 Nelly’s, Mona Paiva, Acropolis, 1927 . Oι γυμνές φωτογραφίες στην Ακρόπολη της Mona Paiva, μπαλαρίνας της Opera Comique, προκάλεσαν...
Romeo and Juliet / ballet | William Shakespeare / Max Ernst / Joan Miro (1926)
Costume design by Joan Miro for Romeo et Juliette, 1926 . . . . . . ^ Man Ray, Serge Lifar as Romeo in Romeo...
Dance | photos by Hannes Kilian (1909-99)
Hannes Kilian, Light scripture of dance, 1950 Hannes Kilian and Stuttgarter Ballet in Apollon Musagéte, 1970 Hannes Kilian:...
Instant Views [o.] Backstage at the Latin Quarter | Photos by Gordon Parks, New York (1958)
. . . . In December 1958, right around Christmastime, LIFE magazine published a 200-page special issue on the glories and absurdities...
The Hand Dance | Tilly Losch (1930-1933)
Tilly Losch (1903-1975) was an Austrian-born dancer, choreographer, actress and painter. Born in Vienna as Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Losch, Tilly Losch studied...
Dancing On Wine Bottles | Bianca Passarge (1958)
Carlo Polito, Bianca Passarge Seventeen year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat, complete with furry tail and dances...
Days [ ) Metamorphosis | Paul Valéry, 1871-1945
Hannes Kilian, Tanz Auf Frühlingswiese (Dance In The Spring Meadow), 1938 “Do you not realize that dance is the pure...
Dancers with Cat Masks | Brassai / Leonor Fini, 1930 – 1948
Brassaï, Dancer wearing a costume designed by Leonor Fini (Argentine, 1907–96) for Les Demoiselles de la Nuit, 1948Les Demoiselles de la...