More Ballet Photos, Etc.

[Solor]

"The Sleeping Beauty" 1890, some of the cast of Act I, including Mme. Brianza

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5896/sl...auty18902wr.jpg

"The Sleeping Beauty" - Vsevolozhsky's costume design for, I think, the Lilac Fairy in the prologue, 1890

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2183/sc...lacfairy189.jpg

"The Nutcracker" - Vsevoloshsky's costume design for Mother Gigogne and her children, 1892

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/8901/sc...thergigone1.jpg

Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevolozhsky, circa?

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All I have to say is WOW - Konstantin Ivanov's decor for the "The Nutcracker" Act II, 1892.

http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/2744/kons...iithenutcra.jpg

Alexandra Danilova as Odette, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1935

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Alexandrova Danilova and Sege Lifar - Apollon Musagetes 1928 (is this Apollo in an early form?)

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3558/al...andsegelifa.jpg

Serge Lifar and Mme. Spessivtseva, circa 1933. Not sure what work.

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9999/serg...ssivtseva7w.jpg

Serge Lifar in the same work as above

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Serge Lifar and Alice Nikihina in a work by Balanchine, 1930

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/5418/serg...ikihinafrea.jpg

Serge Lifar @ Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, 1981

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Anna Pavlova as Kitri circa 1923?, 3rd photo w/ Laurent Novikov. I think these are from her tours.

Abslolutely Gorgeous!

1. http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4978/do...lova19239km.jpg

2. http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/3204/do...ova192324ld.jpg

3. http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/7470/do...vaandlauren.jpg

Anna Pavlova and Laurent Novikov posing outdoors, circa 1920?

1. http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2324/an...ntnovikov19.jpg

2. http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2231/an...ntnovikov20.jpg

3. http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5510/an...ntnovikov21.jpg

Anna Pavlova and Mikhail Mordkin, circa 1915-20?

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5703/an...ilmordkin19.jpg

Anna Pavlova on tour, circa 1920-1925?

1. http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1784/anna...ova192031fx.jpg

2. http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1152/anna...ova192024pl.jpg

Olga Spessivtseva, Aurora. London w/ Ballet Russe, 1921

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/447/sle...ivtseva24zu.jpg

Tamra Karsavina, Armida "La Pavillon d'Armide", 1912 (Ballet Russe or Mariinksy?)

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/1879/armide19125ka.jpg

"Les Sylphides" Ballet Russe, 1938, 2nd photo w/ Vera Nemtchinova and Paul Petroff

1. http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/4755/le...usses19381k.jpg

2. http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/8946/le...ussesverane.jpg

Liza Minelli and Misha boogy-woogy-ing @ Studio 54. New Years Eve 1977 (anybody got a time machine, cause I wanna be there!)

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Rudolf, Manaco. August 17, 1967

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Last but definately not least, Rudolf and Mme. Fonteyn @ San Simon Beach, Beirut. July, 28 1964

this photo gives me a big

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/8221/ru...gotfonteynj.jpg

Edited March 8, 2006 by Solor

[Giannina]

Those are fabulous. Thank you Solor.

And get a load of Margot!

Giannina

[bart]

It's the Pavlova photos which are the big surprise and delight for me. A real human being, not an icon, surprisingly contemporary in look and style. The two "on tour" -- sitting on her wicker travel trunk, and in a dressing room with so m any point shoes on the floor -- are unlike any I've seen before. Thanks, Solor.

[rg]

APOLLON MUSAGETE is the title under which balanchine first showed his ballet eventually called APOLLO.

the fotos of lifar (solo) and w/ spesivtseva are from his own ballet: BACCHUS ET ARIANE - see credits below.

the work showing lifar w/ nemchinova is balanchine's LUNA PARK, OR THE FREAKS, part of balanchine's work for CHARLES B. COCHRAN'S 1930 REVUE.

Bacchus et Ariane: Chor: Serge Lifar; mus: Albert Roussel; lib: Abel Hermant; scen & cos: Giorgio de Chirico. First perf: Paris, Opéra, May 22, 1931, Paris Opéra Ballet.