Ballet Collection

Anna Pavlova dancing Swan Lake
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) Russian ballet dancer photographed here in Swan Lake in 1920

Sleeping Beauty ballet, reawakening scene
While the King and Queen sleep, Prince Charming, with the blessing of the Lilac Fairy, bends to kiss the Sleeping Princess and thereby awaken her

Ballet dancers training
A group of ballet dancers training in a rehearsal studio. circa 1940s

Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev
Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias (1919-1991) British ballerina with Rudolph Nureyev (1938-1993) Russian ballet dancer in 1962 with Sir Frederick Ashton (1904-1988) British choreographer

Cover of Dance magazine, January 1929
Art deco cover of Dance magazine, January 1929, featuring Anna Pavlova Date: 1929

Anna Pavlova / Programme
ANNA PAVLOVA Russian ballet dancer

Ballet / Firebird 1914
An elaborately dressed woman with a firebird on her hand: a design influenced by the recent Diaghilev ballet, with music by Stravinsky

Female contortionist Diana Gaye playing records
The female contortionist Diana Gaye in the sitting room, putting a record on the record player, with an array of the latest LP covers on display. Date: 1971

Ballerina & Snow
View from the Artists Window Romantic depiction of a young blonde ballerina looking at the snowy scene ouside

Ballet dancers rehearsing Coppelia
Ballet dancers from the French Academie de Musique et de Danse rehearsing Coppelia (music by Delibes). Mademoiselle Carlotta Zambelli, Italian dancer and teacher, is in pink on the left

Four ballerinas on a music sheet
Four ballerinas depicted on a music sheet, performing The Celebrated Pas de Quatre, composed by Jules Perrot, as danced at Her Majestys Theatre, London, on 12 July 1845

Anna Pavlova (1881 - 1931), Russian ballet dancer as the Dying Swan in a performance of Swan Lake'. Date: 1912

Carmen Presented by Cuyahoga County Opera Association and the Federal Music Project : Ballet directed by Madame Bianca. Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of Carmen, showing a matador

A portrait of Anna Pavlova in her Swan Dance, 1923
A portrait of Anna Pavlova, the worlds greatest ballerina in her Swan Dance, 1923 Date: 1923

Tango. Watercolor by Marcel Vertes (1895-1961) published in l Illustration on November 26, 1925. Watercolour

Cinderella ballet, Ugly Sisters trying to dance
The Ugly Sisters try to follow their dancing master while Cinderella stands disconsolately by the fire. A scene from a ballet version of Cinderella, based on French and Spanish fairytales

Poster advertising a Dance Festival in the USSR
Poster advertising a Dance Festival in Moscow and Leningrad, USSR, 10 to 20 June 1936

Empire Theatre / 1889
The cover of a programme for the Empire theatre, London. The bill featured comedians including Dan Leno and Cleopatra, A Grand Ballet Divertissement

Anna Pavlova - Russian ballet dancer
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) - Russian ballet dancer holding a basket of flowers during a performance. Date: 1908

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, handler at Peterborough Show
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Tom Newman, the Duke of Beauforts huntsman, taking part as a handler at the Peterborough Foxhound Show

Swan Lake ballet, Siegfried and Odette fall in love
Siegfried and Odette fall in love while the little swans dance. Because of an evil spell, they are swans by day, and only resume human shape at midnight

Sleeping Beauty ballet, christening scene
The christening scene in a ballet version of the Sleeping Beauty, with the wicked fairy Carabosse putting her curse on the baby Princess in her cradle

Mieczyslaw Pianowski, Polish ballet dancer
Mieczyslaw Pianowski (c1891-1967), Polish ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer. circa 1920s

LA Peri / Ballet Russes
LA PERI Costume design for Mademoiselle N. Trouhanowa Date: 1911

Tango, 1912. Dance originating in Argentina that was introduced in Europe after World War I

Margot Fonteyn repairing her ballet shoes
Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), British ballet dancer

Pavlova, Anna (1882-1931). Russian classical dancer. Poster of the Russian Ballets

Beryl Grey
Dame Beryl Elizabeth Grey (b. 1927) English ballet dancer with husband Sven Svenson and their baby son Ingvar Neil

Carlotta Grisi / Giselle
CARLOTTA GRISI (Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi) Italian ballet dancer, seen here in Giselle

Vaslav Nijinsky / Tennis
VASLAV NIJINSKY Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, seen here in his tennis outfit for Jeux

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (2 of 2)

Anna Pavlova / Rumney
ANNA PAVLOVA Russian ballet dancer on stage

Art deco sketch by G. Peres entitled At the Ballet, of a fashionable couple in a box watching a ballet, London, 1922 Date: 1922

Ballerinas in their dressing room
Ballet dancers prepare for a performance in their dressing room. One dancer is seen applying make up, while the feet of another await her silk ballet slippers. c.1947

Cover design for Narcisse by Nikolai Tcherepnin
Cover design for Narcisse, a mythological poem set to music by the Russian composer Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (1873-1945)

Leicester Square Looking Towards the Empire Theatre
The Empire Theatre in Leicester Square, now the Empire cinema, illuminated at night during a season of performances by the celebrated Russian ballet

Les Sylphides Scene
LES SYLPHIDES The view from the wings

Camille Bos, ballet dancer, rehearsing La Grisi
Mademoiselle Camille Bos, ballet dancer at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse, rehearsing La Grisi

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (1 of 2)

Behind the Scenes at Theatre de L Abri, Paris, France
Behind the Scenes at the erotic revue performed at the Theatre de L Abri, Paris, France with principal dancer Louis Espinoza - Le Ballet des Nymphes. Date: circa 1910s

Cuadro Flamenco - Diaghilev Ballets Russes - Picasso
Two of the Andalusian dancers (Rojas and El Tejero) performing the Cuadro Flamenco - during the Ballet Russes performabce by Diaghilev at the Princes Theatre

Ballet Dancer Robert Helpmann as Hamlet
Ballet Dancer Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) as Hamlet - London, New Theatre - Old Vic Production. Date: circa 1942

Anna Pavlova and Marius Petipa
Anna Pavlova (1881 -1931) elegantly striking a pose under the watchful eyes of her long running admirer the great Marius Petipa (1818 1910). Date: circa 1905

A scene inspired by Ancient Crete one of the new productions from Ruth St Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers, 1929 Date: 1929

Diana Mitford
Mr Robert Heber-Percy, Mrs Bryan Guinness (the former Diana Freeman Mitford) and Lord Berners pictured attending the Russian ballet at the Royal Opera House. Date: 1934

Vaslav Nijinsky / Clown
VASLAV NIJINSKY Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, seen here in the role of Petrushka Date: 1890 - 1950

Ballet Petrouschka. Vaslav Nijinsky
Ballet Petrouschka, music by Igor Stravinsky (1911). Illustration by Georges Lepape with the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Art Deco. Drawing

Advertisement for Horlicks -- Better Luck Next Time. Female model (Julie Bishop) in the foreground, looking with disappointment at a dancing couple in the background. 1959

Galina Ulanova, Russian Ballerina as Giselle
Galina Ulanova (1910-1998), Russian Ballerina in the role of Giselle. Date: circa 1930s

Vaslav Nijinsky / Jeux 3
VASLAV NIJINSKY Russian ballet dancer and choreographer with Schollar and Karsavina in Debussys Jeux during the 8th season of the Ballets Russes Date: 1890 - 1950

Ballet Russses / Cover
Cover programme design for Col de. Basils Ballet Russes, at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, for June-September 1936

Anna Pavlova / Rotary
ANNA PAVLOVA Russian ballet dancer holding a basket of flowers during a performance

(The Morning After of a Faun) Le Lendemain d un Faune (or, What an Afternoon ) - The Great success of the new ballet L Apres-Midi d un Faune in which the faun, failing to abduct the nymph herself

Swan Lake - Robert Helpmann as Prince Siegfried
Ballet dancer Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) in the role of Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake (Le Lac des Cygnes) at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (Sadlers Wells Ballet). Date: 1946

Swan Lake - Robert Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn
Ballet dancers Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) in the role of Prince Siegfried and Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) in the role of Odette in the finale of Swan Lake (Le Lac des Cygnes) at Royal Opera House

Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, in Swan Lake. circa 1920s

Ballet dancers
Art Nouveau style illustration depicting two ballet dancers decorated with petals and butterflies. Artist: Ethel Larcombe Date: circa 1910

Anna Pavlova / Rv Stevens
ANNA PAVLOVA Russian ballet dancer on stage in 1912

Mary Honer, ballerina in Les Sylphides, Vic-Wells Ballet
Mary Honer, ballerina in Les Sylphides, The Vic-Wells Ballet, supplement to The Dancing Times, December 1937 Date: 1937

Cover of Dance Magazine, April 1930 with an illustration of the Chicago ballet dancer Ruth Pryor y T. Currie-Bell Date: 1930

The ballerina Emilie Bigottini 1784-1858 dancing in the opera Nina, o sia la pazza per amore (Nina or the girl driven mad by love) by Giovanni Paisiello at the Opera Theatre, Paris, 1816

Anna Pavlova - Russian Ballet Dancer (1881-1931). Date: circa 1910

Beethoven, Ludwig, Van. German

The Gavotte. Rural Party
BAKST, L on (1866-1924). Sherezade. Nijinsky as the sultan for the performance of the ballet Sherezade. Oil on canvas

Vaslav Nijinsky / Blue God
VASLAV NIJINSKY Russian ballet dancer and choreographer in a Bakst costume for the Ballets Russes production of Le Dieu Bleu

Ballet Russes / La Concura
LA CONCURRENCE Curtain design by Andre Derain

Woman & Dog on Beach
A young woman in a red swimsuit, with her white bulldog on the beach. A man with a black poodle looks at them admiringly

A portrait of the American dancer Ruth St Denis, 1929 in her Burmese dance seen during a long period of performances in California Date: 1929

Harlequin and Columbine: a dance routine arranged by Helene Denizon of the Fokine ballet with Everett Llelan, 1927. 1/2 Date: 1927

Tatler cover - Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Karsavina (1885 - 1978), Russian ballet dancer, who, in 1919, at the time of this photograph, had been performing with the Russian Ballet at the Alhambra Theatre in London. Date: 1919

Miss Libbys Fruits - Peaches
Libbys Happy Families Card Game, Miss Libbys Fruits - Peaches. circa 1950s

Julia Farron - Ballet Dancer in Mlle. Theodore - Scene 1
Julia Farron (1922-2019) - Ballet Dancer performing as Mademoiselle Theodore in The Prospect Before Us, scene 1, a one-act comic ballet in seven scenes

The Russian ballet at the Alhambra, London, 1921 featuring a scene from Scheheraze with Mme D Albaicin, Pavlov and Singaienvski and a portrait of the Spanish dancer Mme D Albaicin Date: 1921

Girl in Ballet shoes
A young girl seated on a small mat, wearing her ballet shoes and wearing her hair in bunches. Pencil sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Ballet / Ally Sloper 1890
Ally Sloper dances before the County Council in an attempt to demonstrate the value of the performing arts

Nijinsky / Le Dieu Bleu
LE DIEU BLEU Costume design for Nijinsky in the role of Le Dieu Bleu

Scheherazade / Bal. Russes
SCHEHERAZADE Set design by Leon Bakst

Midnight Sun / Ballet Russ
MIDNIGHT SUN Set design, showing dancers on stage and large sun-faces over-head

Diaghilev Photo Sacha
SERGEY PAVLOVICH DIAGHILEV Russian Art critic and impresario. A key figure in producing the Ballet Russes

Two children putting on a ballet show for their grandparents. Date: 1933

The Grand Theatre in Warsaw, Poland
The Grand Theatre in Warsaw (Teatr Wielki w Warszawie) - a theatre and opera complex situated on the historic Theatre Square in central Warsaw, Poland

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Elegant ballet dancer dancing on point. Date: 1920s

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Ballet dancer on point and wearing a short pale green and mauve flower-like costume. Date: 1920s

In the Foyer. Engraving, 1898
In the Foyer. Illustration by Tomas Munoz Lucena (1860-1943). Engraving by Matute. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1898

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