Queen of the Dryads

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[adelphe]

Antoinette Sibley as Titania in The Dream, 1964

The Art of the Royal Ballet by Keith Money, 1966

[kameliendame]

Francesca Hayward

ph. Bill Cooper

[sovushka-seraya]

Alla Osipenko and Alexander Gribov, ‘The Stone Flower’

[peopleofthebarre]

Dame Alicia Markova (Lilian Alicia Marks) in La Chatte (Boris Kochno – Henri Sauguet – George Balanchine for the Ballets Russes), ca 1927. Photographer unknown.

[queenofthedryads]

Nina Kaptsova in the Nutcracker.

[kameliendame]

Akane Takada

ph. Bill Cooper

[thedailyballet]

[gatabella]

Vivien Leigh as Aurora, Goddess of Dawn by Angus McBean, 1938

[melmothblog]

Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Natalia Lapitskaya as the French Dolls in the Bolshoi’s “The Nutcracker”. 1993.

[lasylphidedubolchoi]

Zhanna Ayupova and Rudolf Nureyev in Kirov’s (Mariinsky’s) La Sylphide

[balfecaitriona]

Scarlett O’Hara’s costumes in Gone With The Wind, 1939.

[dorotheevp]

New York City Ballet in The Nutcraker

Photographer: Andrea Mohin

[roseydoux]

Gilda (1946)

[kameliendame]

Francesca Hayward

ph. Tristram Kenton

[queen-obraztsova]

Evgenia Obraztsova and Herman Cornejo backstage before La Sylphide

(unknown photographer)

[adelphe]

Irina Baronova

World Ballet, 1958

[sovushka-seraya]

Alla Osipenko, Lyudmila Kovaleva, Marina Vasilyeva and other Kirov ballet dancers in ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ during Kirov’s tour in Paris, 1961

ph. by Roger Pic