LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1Vera Maya’s Studio. Photo: S. Rybin, 1927. Courtesy A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Moscow.

2Heptachor Studio in the 1920s. Courtesy Tatiana Trifonova.

3Stefanida Rudneva. ‘The Wings’, mid-1920s. Courtesy Tatiana Trifonova.

4Stefanida Rudneva and Natalia Ped’kova. A study to ‘Dance of the Skomorokhi’ by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, mid-1920s. Courtesy Tatiana Trifonova.

5Fedor Golovin. ‘M. F. Kokoshkina, Andrei Bely and F. F. Kokoshkin’. Paper, Indian ink. 1917. Courtesy Andrei Bely Memorial Apartment on Arbat, Moscow.

6Vasily Kamensky. Tango with Cows. Ferro-concrete Poems. 1914.

7‘An Embarrassing Situation.’ Amongst bare-footed dancers there is a new trend to illustrate poetry with dances. Courtesy Andrei Rossomakhin.

8Vladimir Mayakovsky (1924).

9Nikolai Foregger. Machine Dances (1923). From Ritm i kul’tura tantsa (Rhythm and the Culture of Dance) (Moscow and Leningrad, 1926).

10Cyclography of stroke movement. Central Institute of Labour, Moscow, 1920s. From R. Fülöp-Miller, The Mind and Face of Bolshevism (London and New York, 1927).

11Nikolai Bernshtein in the Central Institute of Labour. Moscow, mid-1920s. From R. Fülöp-Miller, The Mind and Face of Bolshevism (London and New York, 1927).