Ballet Collection (page 12)

Ninette de Valois at a ballet rehearsal
Ninette de Valois sitting on a chair with her back to a large mirror, presiding over a ballet class or rehearsal. circa 1940s

Ninette de Valois watching a ballet rehearsal
Three women, including Ninette de Valois, sitting on chairs with their backs to a large mirror, watching a ballet class or rehearsal. circa 1940s

Two ballet dancers in artistic pose
Two ballet dancers, a man and a woman, in an artistic pose, photographed at a diagonal angle. circa 1940s

Fanny Elssler / 3 Graces
FANNY ELSSLER (centre) Austrian ballet dancer, seen here with Marie Taglioni (left) and Fanny Cerrito (right) in The Three Graces Date: 1810 - 1884

Alhambra Theatre / 1892
The cover of a programme for the Alhambra theatre, London. The bill featured comics, jugglers, singers, and ballet. Date: 1892

Paisley Matador Pants
Blonde model wears paisley print matador pants with a broad leather belt, ballet pumps & white shirt with the sleeves rolled up & and the collar upturned. Date: 1950s

Bronislava Nijinska
BRONISLAVA FOMINITSHNA NIJINSKA Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher; Vaslav Nijinskys sister Date: 1891 - 1972

Cover of Dance magazine, January 1924
Art deco cover of Dance magazine, January 1924, featuring Anna Pavolva Date: 1924

Swan Lake ballet, Swan Princess and Siegfried
The Swan Princess begs Siegfried not to shoot, and reveals that she and her followers are enchanted by the wicked Rotbart

Swan Lake ballet, the unfortunate girls become swans again
Siegfried and Odette are about to embrace when the evil Rotbart disguised as a large owl appears, and the unfortunate girls become swans again

Ondine taken from the ship, leaving Palemon with Berta
The angry Tirrenio creates a storm and carries Ondine from the ship, leaving Palemon with Berta. Illustration to a fairytale by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, first published 1812

Swan Lake ballet, Siegfried promises delivery from Rotbart
Siegfried promises to deliver the swans from the evil spell of Rotbart and they all dance for joy. He invites Odette to the ball his parents are giving

Palemon kisses Ondine and dies in her arms
Palemon kisses Ondine, despite knowing that this will be fatal, and dies in her arms. Illustration to a fairytale by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, first published 1812

Music sheet cover for Danseuses Viennoises
Music sheet cover for the Danseuses Viennoises (Viennese Dancers), No.3 Pas des Moissonneurs (Harvesters Dance or Harvest Fete), with music by Max Maretzek (1821-1897)

Miniatures for Piano, music cover
Cover design for a book of piano music for children, Treasures from an Old Oak Chest, Miniatures for Piano by H Baynton-Power

Cover design for The Butterflies Ball
Music cover design for The Butterflies Ball, Air de Ballet, by Clifford Higgin, published by Cary & Co of London. An elegant butterfly couple are depicted, hand in hand

Esmeralda Quadrilles, music cover
Scene from a ballet on a music cover for the Esmeralda Quadrilles by Charles W Glover. A male ballet dancer takes centre stage, with several ballerinas grouped round him

Charlots Show, Nerman
Herbert Mundin, Henry Lytton, Anton Dolin and Jessie Mathews, in Charlots Show, 1926

Russian Season in Paris: Cleopatra
The Russian dancer, Ida Lvovna Rubinstein in the title role of Cleopatra in the Paris season of 1909; she was part of the Ballet Russes company, founded by Sergei Diaghilev

The Corsair at Drury Lane Theatre
Revival of the ballet The Corsair staged by Ferdinand Albert Decombe (known as Albert) at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. Mademoiselle Adele Dumilatre is shown in the role of Gulnare

Folies Bergere - dancer
A dancer from the Astronomers Revue at the Folies Bergere, Paris. The dancer is Mademoiselle Geczy, a name that hints of an Eastern European origin

The Dancing Lesson by W. E. Webster
A scene in an elegant ballet studio with dancers tying their shoes and musicians warming up ready to play in the background

Pinkie and the Fairies
A young girl ballet dancer playing the role of the Queen of the Fairies in G F Nortons Christmas play for children, Pinkie and the Fairies, produced at His Majestys Theatre in 1908

Sir Frederick Ashton (1904 - 1988), ballet dancer and choreographer. Among his works are the Symphonic Variations set to the music of Cesar Franck; his first example of the abstract ballet of pure

L Apres Midi D Un Faun by Frank M. Lea
A rather ugly faun sleeps off a big lunch while a nymph like waitress, naked but for her apron and hat carries away a tray

Entr acte
Young ballet dancer or flapper girl posing on a stool

The Comedy-Ballet of Marionnettes as performed by the troupe of the Theatre-Impossible, posed in the first of three drawings. A lady in a black dress and white muff, with a small pierrot-like figure

Time for Reflection by Elsie Harding
A ballerina in a very horizontal tutu skirt pauses by a mirrored door and is reflected along with the colour Chinese lanterns hanging nearby

If the Russian Ballet were to go red
Russian ballet. The ballet, particularly their costumes by Diaghilev, caused a sensation in London during the 1920 s, influencing everything from interior decor to fashion

Ram Gopal (1917-2003) Indian ballet dancer

Marie Taglioni / Lacauchie
MARIE TAGLIONI Italian ballet dancer, one of the first to dance on the points of her toes

Marie Taglioni / Iln 1847
MARIE TAGLIONI Italian ballet dancer, one of the first to dance on the points of her toes

Futurist designer dress, 1913
A design by the Futurist artist, Leon Bakst, expressing the spring time of the earth, 1913. Bakst designed dresses and scenery for the Russian ballet at this time

Nicolai Polajenko-Dancer
Nicolai Polajenko - principal male ballet dancer

Massenet / Cid / Ballet
Somewhat incongruously, Massenet manages to introduce a ballet scene into his second act - a Spanish dance performed in the main square of Burgos

Decor, Helene De Sparte
HELENE DE SPARTE part of the decor by Bakst

Anna Pavlova / Home / Cat
ANNA PAVLOVA Russian ballet dancer in her London home with her cat

Fanny Cerrito / Ondine
FANNY CERRITO Italian ballet dancer, seen here in Ondine

Flora Fabbri / Ballet 1846
FLORA FABBRI Ballet dancer in the role of Mazourka in Le Diable a Quatre in 1846

Fanny Cerrito / Lituana
FANNY CERRITO Italian ballet dancer, seen here in La Lituana

Fanny Elssler / Perrot
FANNY ELSSLER Austrian ballet dancer, seen here dancing with Jules Perrot in La Castilliana Bolero in Le Delire d un Peintre

Carlotta Grisi / Polka
CARLOTTA GRISI (Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi) Italian ballet dancer, seen here with Jules Perrot in La Polka

Fanny Cerrito / St Leon
FANNY CERRITO Italian ballet dancer, seen here with Arthur Saint Leon in La Redowa Polka

Carlotta Grisi / Peri 1844
CARLOTTA GRISI (Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi) Italian ballet dancer, seen here in La Peri

Anna Pavlova / Postcard
ANNA PAVLOVA Russian ballet dancer in an ornate costume in 1910

Ninette De Valois 1930S
NINETTE DE VALOIS English ballet dancer with the Ballet Russe, later founder of the Royal Ballet, director and choreographer

Salome / Ballet Russes
TRAGEDIE DE SALOME Costume design for Salome from a painting by Soudeikine

Le Dieu Bleu / Stage
LE DIEU BLEU Mystical stage design by Leon Bakst

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