Ballets Collection (page 5)

Ballets Negres (flyer for Embassy Theatre)
Britains first black ballet company Ballet Negres co-founded by Berto Pasuka. In the 1940s it brought traditional and contemporary black dance to to Britain and Europe with sell-out tours

Mlle Gheltzer, the star dancer of the Russian season in Paris 1910

Vaslav Nijinsky - Blue God
VASLAV NIJINSKY Russian ballet dancer and choreographer in a Bakst costume for the Ballets Russes production of Le Dieu Bleu Date: 1890 - 1950

Red Riding Hood, pantomime, with Decima Brooke, Maisie Jerrard, Will Lytton and Howard Ward, with ballets and marches arranged by John Tiller. circa 1907

Ida Rubinstein as Cleopatra
The Russian dancer, Ida Lvovna Rubinstein in the title role of Cleopatra, at the time she was performing at the Coliseum in London. Date: 1909

Vaslav Nijinsky. Le Pavillon d Armide
Ballets Russes. The dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet Le Pavillon d Armide, with choreography by Mikhail Fokin and music by Nikolai Tcherepine (1911)

Vaslav Nijinsky and. Tamara Karsavina
Ballets Russes. Ballet Le Spectre de la Rose, music by Carl Maria von Weber and choreography by Mikhail Fokin. On stage, the performers of the premiere

Ballet Les Sylphides, performed by the Diaghilevs Ballets Russes after the choreography by Mikhail Fokin. Watercolour by Ernst Oppler (1925). Watercolour

Anna Pavlova and. Vaslav Nijinsky
Ballets Russes. Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky (1909)

Fashion inspired by Leon Bakst
Gowns in the newest manner, inspired by the modern designs of Leon Bakst (best known for his theatrical costumes for the Ballets Russe) and realised by Paquin

Le Train Bleu by the Russian Ballet drawn by Hookway Cowles
Scene on stage at the London Coliseum showing the Russian Ballet performing Le Train Bleu, a dance comedy inspired by the vogue for the French Riviera and its associated pastimes and entertainments

Programmes for the Alhambra Theatre, London 1904
Promotional programme for the Alhambra Theatre, London commencing Monday, 28th November 1904 featuring ballets, orchestral pieces, jugglers and tumbling. Date: 1904

Lydia Sokolova, ballet dancer (1896-1974) who, despite her exotic, Russian-sounding name was born Hilda Tansley Munnings in Wanstead, East London

Leon Bakst
Russian painter and costume/ theatrical designer, Leon Samoilovitch Bakst (18661924). Pictured in The Sketch at the time he held an exhibition of his costume designs at the Fine Art Society

Benjamin Godard
BENJAMIN GODARD - French musician, who wrote operas, ballets, chamber music and a dramatic symphony Tasso, but who is best remembered for his popular salon music. Date: 1849 - 1895

Seraphine Astafieva (1876-1934) Russian ballet dancer and teacher who performed with Diaghilevs Ballet Russes between 1909 and 1911

Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer
Michel Fokine (Mikhail Fokin, 1880-1942), Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. He staged more than 70 ballets in Europe and the USA, most famously with the Ballets Russes. Date: 1914

Lubov Tschernicheva by Madame Yevonde
Lubov Tschernicheva (1890-1976) by Madame Yevonde. She was a Russian ballerina, a member of Diaghilevs Ballets Russes. Seen here as one of the Maids of Honour in Las Meninas

Roshanara (Olive Craddock), Indian dancer
Mlle Roshanara (real name Olive Craddock, 1894-1926), Indian dancer in a graceful pose, with snake-like arms. She learned to dance as a child in India

Vera Fokina, Russian ballet dancer
Vera Fokina (nee Antonova, 1886-1958), Russian ballet dancer, wife of Mikhail Fokine. In 1914 she was dancing in a Russian season at Drury Lane, London. Date: July 1914

Beethoven, Ludwig, Van. German

Herold, Ferdinand 1791 - 1833
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold. French composer of Alsatian descent. Mainly known for his operas and ballets

Nijinsky, by Orazi
The star of stars of Les Ballets Russes

CARNAVAL BALLET
Carnaval, a romantic ballet to music by Robert Schumann

Giselle, Grisi
GISELLE Carlotta Grisi in the leading role

Ballet Offenbach 1892
Scene from the Ballet de la Neige, in Offenbachs La Voyage dans la Lune

Serge Lifar performing in the ballet Icare
Serge Lifar performing in the one-act ballet Icare, in which he played the mythological character of Icarus, who fell to earth when his wings failed him

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