ballet russe - ballet russe de monte carlo

ballet russe de montecarlo

tamara geva, lubov tchernicheva, alice nikitina & alexandra danilova with serge lifar as the telegraph boy in la pastorale, 1926

le train bleu, stage frontcloth by picasso for the diaghilev ballet russes, 1924

léonide massine as pulcinella in pulcinella, photographed by e.o. hoppe, 1920 

anna Ppavlova in costume for russian dance, london, ca.1910

alexandra danilova and serge lifar in apollon musagète, ca. 1928

lubov tchernicheva in thamar, ballets russes, ca. 1930s

chatelet gran de saison de paris, ballet russe by jean cocteau

michel fokine and tamara karsavina in the firebird, ca. 1910

mikhail mordkin, diaghilev’s ballet russe dancer photographed by nickolas muray, 1922 

ballet russe de monte carlo 1939-1940 season. 

souvenir program by henri matisse

andre eglevsky &  jeannette lauret in shéhérazade, ballet russe de monte carlo 

mikhail fokine & vera fokina in carnaval 

music by robert schumann, choregraphy by mikhail fokine, design by léon bakst, ca. 1910

costume for cléopâtre in the ballets russes production of cléopâtre, 1918

 roméo et juliette, costume design by joan miró, ca. 1926

jean cocteau’s ballet le train blue,  costumes by coco chanel, 1924

léonide massine and alexandra danilova in le pas d'acier by diaghilev's ballets russes, paris, france, photographed by sasha, 1927

valentina koshuba in les noces petrouchka, photographed by edward steichen, may 1929

hand programme for the 1941-42 season of the ballet russes de monte carlo,  cover by salvador dalí

vaslav nijinski,  les orientales,  la danse siamoise, 1910

serge lifar, icare, photographed by boris lipnitzki, 1935

the ballad of amanda lear

amanda lear photographed by willy vanderperre in collaboration with ricardo tisci for v#68. 

amanda lear was famous or more accurately infamous from the mid 1960s and 1970s. girlfriend of rolling stone brian jones & david bowie (she's in his "sorrow" video - one of my favorite bowie songs), fiancé of bryan ferry (she's on the cover of "for your pleasure") and muse to salvador dali, she also had & has a successful singing career.  her infamy stems from the rumors (of fact?) that she was a transsexual.  she posed for playboy fully nude to dispel rumors but never could.  what a fierce and fabulous woman who has led an amazing life!
one of my favorite stories about her is more recent - in 2002 she told new york's night magazine that she ran into model claudia schiffer in restaurant a few years earlier - a producer had optioned her book my life with dali  and wanted schiffer to play lear. shiffer said 'i love your book! who wrote it for you? lear said 'i did, darling. who read it to you?' the movie was never made.
she is in her 60s by the way....i hope i look & feel that great. love.