February 5th, 2012
Le Pas d’Acier (The Steel Step) by Sergei Prokofiev, 1927

Le Pas d’Acier (The Steel Step) by Sergei Prokofiev, 1927

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January 31st, 2012
Bronislava Nijinska in Igor Stravinsky’s Les Noces, 1923

Bronislava Nijinska in Igor Stravinsky’s Les Noces, 1923

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December 28th, 2011
realityayslum: Anna Pavlova in Oriental Fantasy. Photograph by Herman Mishkin, c.1913.

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Anna Pavlova in Oriental Fantasy. Photograph by Herman Mishkin, c.1913.

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September 26th, 2011
Portrait of Tamara Grigorieva. (by National Library of Australia Commons) The Geoffrey Ingram collection of ballet photographs from the Ballets Russes Australian tour, 1936-1940. Tamara Grigorieva pictured backstage with a dog.

Portrait of Tamara Grigorieva. (by National Library of Australia Commons)

The Geoffrey Ingram collection of ballet photographs from the Ballets Russes Australian tour, 1936-1940. Tamara Grigorieva pictured backstage with a dog.

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September 26th, 2011
“Swan lake”, Ballets Russes, [1]. (by National Library of Australia Commons) The Geoffrey Ingram collection of ballet photographs from the Ballets Russes Australian tour, 1936-1940.

“Swan lake”, Ballets Russes, [1]. (by National Library of Australia Commons)

The Geoffrey Ingram collection of ballet photographs from the Ballets Russes Australian tour, 1936-1940.

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September 26th, 2011
Sono Osato in Francesca da Rimini costume. (by National Library of Australia Commons) The Geoffrey Ingram collection of ballet photographs from the Ballets Russes Australian tour, 1936-1940

Sono Osato in Francesca da Rimini costume. (by National Library of Australia Commons)

The Geoffrey Ingram collection of ballet photographs from the Ballets Russes Australian tour, 1936-1940

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