On pointe!
Ida Rubinstein, 1915.
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Margot Fonteyn, 1939.
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Lubov Tchernicheva, Alice Nikitina, Alexandra Danilova, Felia Doubrovska, and Serge Lifar during a production of Apollon Musagetes, 1928.
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June Brae and Robert Helpmann in Dante Sonata at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 1939.
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