Costume & Dance Historian
Last week I created a guide to some of my favourite online dance resources. This week I thought I would share my favourite Ballets Russes costume resources. Museums and archives are slowly making more and more of their collections available online but sometimes these are hard to find and navigate - happy lock-down researching! 1.… Continue reading A Guide to online Ballets Russes Costume Resources
Anna Pavlova dressed in her costume for The Swan, photographed by the pond at her London home of Ivy House. Copyright MOL. Early last month, barely a week before the world shut down and I was destined to be a quarantined historian rather than a travelling one, I visited the exhibition Ballerina: Fashion's Modern Muse… Continue reading A tutu or three … The Mystery of Anna Pavlova’s Dying Swan costume
Caroline Hamilton 