Ballet Russe

Ballet Russe goes Spanish

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Gaite Parisienne

The Ballet Russe performs

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A related photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22748577@N05/2226629399/

Ballet Russe 1953-54

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Gaite Parisienne - Ballet Russe

https://dcd.ca/specialexhibits/balletsrusses.html

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Google Cultural Institute

Another example of what's available at the Google Cultural Institute if you broaden your search.  She's not doing the cancan per se, but this really is a great image of a ballet dancer from a period when what was underneath the costume was itself part of the costume.

This shot was found using the search term "Ballet Russe":

http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/MgEPKeywBiXOjA?hl=en#!asset-viewer:l.id=CwEOZrW8TmWt4Q&hl=en&urlStub=Ballet%20Russe

The site does not provide the name of the dancer or the photographer for this photo.


See the posting at 3-29-13 for more information about Google Cultural Institute.

X - Colonel de Basil's "Original Ballet Russe" (Russian Ballet) season, 1939-1940

 

 Le Beau Danube

 from Australia - Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

 https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/P26Nok6RpLoAX

Ballet Russe: Waltz from Gaîté Parisienne (Maria Tallchief & Frederic Franklin)

Billed as a waltz, this performance includes enough cancanesque elements to make it a nice watch, inluding the coda at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgwJklGY064

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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

Wish I'd been there to see a performance.

Among the sights to be seen:

http://barbebleu.tumblr.com/image/32553817316

http://barbebleu.tumblr.com/image/31178923745

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9zkkz3Tae1rg2tj8o1_500.jpg

Gaîté Parisienne - Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

From a EBay auction:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Beautiful-8x10-Dancers-Can-Can-Gaite-Parisienne-Monte-Carlo-Photographs-/301225318159?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item46226d970f

"Gaîté Parisienne" - Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

The real thing, secretly recorded by Victor Jessen on 16mm film over a number of performances and years.  He should be an honorary member.

Original at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH_H-_j888M

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Compare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1jaWvIfa68

Gaite Parisienne

From a record album cover.  It looks like these are the actual dancers from the Ballet Russe production.

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Lydia Lopokova

I think these photos are of Ms. Lopokova costumed as the cancan dancer in the Ballet Russe's La Boutique Fantasque.  I discovered them at:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/b/blog/diaghilev-and-ballets-russes/treat-screen

where there is a link to a slow motion video of her dancing (spinning).

Trivia:  Ms. Lopokova was married to John Maynard Keynes.

Her Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Lopokova

Ballet Russe 1939

 

 

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Gaite Parisienne - Ballet Russe 1930 - 40s

 

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Gaite Parisienne

 

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