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**mrcheese** · May 24th, 2010, 11:46 AM

Nadja (Beatrice Wanger)

“But Claude Cahun's self-consciousness disturbs and leaves you feeling far more troubled. In every way, she is a surrealist figure. It is fitting that she should have been a close friend, probably a lover, of the original Nadja, the dancer and theosophist Beatrice Wanger, to whom she dedicated a poem, addressing it to Breton. Her friendship with Jacqueline Lamba Breton is more than fitting; Lamba was sensitive to originality, to art of all kinds, and to creative people.”
© Mary Ann Caws
“The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter”

“In this context, they grew close to an exotic dancer, an American expatriate named Beatrice Wanger, whose stage name was Nadja (like the heroine of Andre Breton)...”
© Tirza True Latimer
“Women together/women apart: portraits of lesbian Paris”

“Cahun reputedly had an amorous liaison with Beatrice Wanger, whose 'barefoot' free improvisational dancing style was compared to that of Isadora Duncan.”
© Welby-Everard.
“Imaging the Actor: the Theatre of Claude Cahun” (Oxford Art J.2006)

Claude Cahun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun

Theatre Esoterique
“founded by Berthe D'Yd and Paul Castan. The troupe specialized in what one reviewer described as "dramatic tableaux that made one dream, because of the preciousness and refinement of the palette, of Oscar Wilde's Salome. Cahun assisted with, and occasionally performed in, the theater's esoteric spectacles--which included Sar Peladan’s Babylone, La Prometheide, and Oedipe et le Sphinx. These productions were staged in a cultural center founded by the Societe Theosophique. Moore, by then an accomplished designer, offered her services to the company. The theatrical and fashion designs preserved in the Jersey Heritage Trust archives leave little doubt as to Moore's professional promise in this realm. Her schematic costume drawings, like the ones she conceived for stage idol Edward de Max, are sure-handed and expressive...”
© Tirza True Latimer
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/P...rzaEssay2.html

Hasoutra (Ryllis Barnes Simpson) and Nadja (Beatrice Wanger)

May 24th, 2010, 11:46 AM	#28
mrcheese Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kyiv Posts: 578 Thanks: 44 Thanked 17,705 Times in 579 Posts	Nadja (Beatrice Wanger) Nadja (Beatrice Wanger) “But Claude Cahun's self-consciousness disturbs and leaves you feeling far more troubled. In every way, she is a surrealist figure. It is fitting that she should have been a close friend, probably a lover, of the original Nadja, the dancer and theosophist Beatrice Wanger, to whom she dedicated a poem, addressing it to Breton. Her friendship with Jacqueline Lamba Breton is more than fitting; Lamba was sensitive to originality, to art of all kinds, and to creative people.” © Mary Ann Caws “The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter” “In this context, they grew close to an exotic dancer, an American expatriate named Beatrice Wanger, whose stage name was Nadja (like the heroine of Andre Breton)...” © Tirza True Latimer “Women together/women apart: portraits of lesbian Paris” “Cahun reputedly had an amorous liaison with Beatrice Wanger, whose 'barefoot' free improvisational dancing style was compared to that of Isadora Duncan.” © Welby-Everard. “Imaging the Actor: the Theatre of Claude Cahun” (Oxford Art J.2006) Claude Cahun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun Theatre Esoterique “founded by Berthe D'Yd and Paul Castan. The troupe specialized in what one reviewer described as "dramatic tableaux that made one dream, because of the preciousness and refinement of the palette, of Oscar Wilde's Salome. Cahun assisted with, and occasionally performed in, the theater's esoteric spectacles--which included Sar Peladan’s Babylone, La Prometheide, and Oedipe et le Sphinx. These productions were staged in a cultural center founded by the Societe Theosophique. Moore, by then an accomplished designer, offered her services to the company. The theatrical and fashion designs preserved in the Jersey Heritage Trust archives leave little doubt as to Moore's professional promise in this realm. Her schematic costume drawings, like the ones she conceived for stage idol Edward de Max, are sure-handed and expressive...” © Tirza True Latimer http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/P...rzaEssay2.html Hasoutra (Ryllis Barnes Simpson) and Nadja (Beatrice Wanger)