The original costumes for The Four Temperaments did not last long. The ballet premiered in 1946 and the costumes were discarded in 1951. Today the ballet is performed in black leotard and skin-toned tights. In this post I have gathered all of the photos I can find of the original costumes in order of appearance in the ballet, listed with the original principals dancers of each section. "Tchelitchev suggested Kurt Seligmann, an erudite painter with a big library of alchemy and

In the late 1930s, Balanchine had extra money from his work on Broadway and in Hollywood and used it to commission Paul Hindemith to...