Ludwig Kainer
Tamara Karsavina in the “Polovtsian Dances”
undated
Ludwig Kainer
Adolph Bolm in the “Polovtsian Dances”
undated
Lithograph, hand-colored
John Neumeier Foundation, Hamburg
The “Polovtsian Dances,” with their wildness and supposed “barbarism,” were one of the showpieces of the Ballets Russes.