Ballet School, Paris (Ecole de danse del’Opera) by Brässaï, 1953
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Serge Lifar in the ballet ‘Icare’
Icare, (1935-1962),Icare chorégraphié et dansé par S.Lifar, décors P.Larthe (1935), P.Picasso (1962), musique J.E.Szyfer/ A.Honegger.
from HDV
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Raven Wilkinson (b.1936), became the first African American woman ever hired as a permanent member of a major ballet company.
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An Irving Penn study for Vogue of the people involved in Ballet Society’s 1948 production of The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. From left to right, Corrado Cagli, the designer; Vittorio Bieti, the composer; Tanaquil Le Clercq, dancer (Ariadne); and George Balanchine
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The Afternoon of a Faun ~ Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (Russian, 1866 – 1924) ballet program, 1912 via
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Three ladies have lunch with a leopard at the Luna Park Zoo in Los Angeles, CA - c.1920s
Which Came First? (by jack_mord)
The Princess in the Backyard, Heinz Hajek Halke 1930
German postcard, hand colored, by A.G. Steglitz, 1904
If this isn’t cute to you, you’re dead inside.
Wuppertal Schwebebahn