This is one of numerous intimate portraits from the Bruno Benini photography archive acquired by the Powerhouse Museum with funding assistance from the Commonwealth Government’s National Cultural Heritage Account in 2009. Dramatically lit and boldly choreographed, the image captures an intimate moment in the dance routine and the working life of Leonide Fedorovich Massine (1895/6-1979) one of the greatest dance masters and choreographers of the 20th century. Compositionally the image gains great theatrical presence as Massine and the female ballerina occupy only a small part of the spot lit picture plane, the remainder of the image remains in stark contrasting blackness. The name of the female ballerina, the specific ballet and the theatre are not yet known. Perhaps you can help us with our research? Bruno Benini took the photograph in London during 1958.
Photography by Bruno Benini
© Estate of Bruno Benini
Post by Anne-Marie Van de Ven, Curator
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