Ballets russes

Hans Zatzka, and Austrian painter 1859 - 1945 www.gildedserpent.com "And those who were seen dancing were thought mad by those who could not hear the music." --- Friedrich Nietzsche unknown vintage photo dancer 1942 movie poster www.cartelespeliculas.com "Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances." - Maya Angelou Arabian Nights illustration www.illustrationart.blogspot.com Ida Rubinstein and Vaslav Nijinsky in Scheherazade, 1910 "A filmy veil, floating gracefully around a…

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A design for "Queen of the Night"[/caption] Nineteenth century Russia was restless, and so was Léon Bakst. The young man belonged to a new generation of creatives, one ready to turn Realism on its head with one flick of a bejewelled, utterly fabulous wrist. Today, his name is "a byword for excite

Leon Baskt

Illustration of photograph (credited Sasha) showing Alice Nikitina and Serge Lifar in the ballet La Chatte, 1927 in the book The Russian Ballet by Walter Archibald Propert. New York: Greenberg [1932] GV1787 .P72 1932

Ballet Russes