Mikhail Fokine, modernist choreographer - 2

1.Mikhail Fokine in Marius Petipa’s Raymonda.

2. Mikhail Fokine, the ballet master

4. Tamara Karsavina in the title role of The Firebird, 1910, wearing the androgynous culottes or pantaloons on which Fokine insisted.

5.Tamara Karsavina in the title role of The Firebird, 1910, wearing the androgynous culottes or pantaloons on which Fokine insisted.

6.Tamara Karsavina in the title role of The Firebird, 1910, wearing the androgynous culottes or pantaloons on which Fokine insisted.

7.Tamara Karsavina in the title role of The Firebird, 1910, wearing the androgynous culottes or pantaloons on which Fokine insisted, with Fokine as Ivan Tsarevich.

8.Tamara Karsavina coaching Margot Fonteyn in the title role of The Firebird, in 1954.

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9. A 1954 photograph by Robert Harper of Svetlana Beriosova and Michael Somes as the Beautiful Tsarevna and Ivan Tsarevich in the first Royal Ballet production of The Firebird. They are just beginning the kiss. Two of the twelve princesses, propping up their heads on their elbows, are seen to watch; in fact all twelve are spellbound, variously grouped around the stage.

10. Alexandre Benois painting of Les Sylphides, which he had designed, 1909

11.Leon Bakst, 1909 poster for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, showing Anna Pavlova in Les Sylphides.

12. A 1910 page featuring the Diaghilev season in Paris, flanked by Vaslav Nijinsky (left) as the Golden Slave and Ida Rubinstein (right) as Zobeide.

13. Vaslav Nijinsky in the title role of Petrushka, 1911.

14. Tamara Karsavina as the Ballerina Doll in Petrushka, 1911.

15. Tamara Karsavina as the Ballerina Doll and Alexander Orlov as the Blackamoor in the original production of Petrushka, 1911.