Matilda So Blue

19 year old Ekaterina Maximova rehearsing for her debut in Giselle with Galina Ulanova. 1959-60.

Photograph by Albert E. Kahn.

Maximova on working with Ulanova:

Ulanova says a dancer must learn to express thoughts in movement so convincingly that movements are like words and dancing is expressive as speech. If you ask her how to achieve this, she smiles and tells you there’s no formula for creating beauty. It’s necessary to to keep searching and always working….

 Yes, that’s what she stresses most of all- work. She keeps telling me, ‘work,work,work. Without work, there is nothing.’

From Albert E. Kahns’ Days with Ulanova

19 year old Ekaterina Maximova rehearsing for her debut in Giselle with Galina Ulanova. 1959-60.

Photograph by Albert E. Kahn.

19 year old Ekaterina Maximova rehearsing for her debut in Giselle with Galina Ulanova.. joined by Yuri Zhdanov. 1959-60.

Photograph by Albert E. Kahn.

19 year old Ekaterina Maximova during a rehearsal with Galina Ulanova for her debut in Giselle. 1959-60.

Photograph by Albert E. Kahn

Louis Armstrong. December 31, 1965.

photograph by David Redfern
 

Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.

notthelatterortheformer:

There’s something incredibly attractive about Che Guevara.

(Source: fuckyeahhistorycrushes)

Rudolf Nureyev near the Vaganova Academy in Leningrad, circa 1960.

Photo by Tamara Zakrzhevskaya

vintageblackglamour:

Malcolm X in Chicago in 1961. Photo by Eve Arnold who died on January 4, 2012 at the age of 99, just three months short of her 100th birthday. 

Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.

I thought his hands looked exceptionally beautiful here.. particularly the left hand- like out of a painting.

Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara (Cuba, 1960)

Galina Ulanova coaching 19 year old Ekaterina Maximova for her debut in Giselle. 1959-60.

Photograph by Albert E. Kahn.

Galina Ulanova coaching 19 year old Ekaterina Maximova for her debut in Giselle. 1959-60.