Figures & data
Figure 1 Cléo de Mérode in her topeng-inspired dance costume (1900). Source: René Maizeroy, 1900, ‘La danse a l'exposition: le theatre Indo-Chinois, Mlle Cléo de Mérode et les danses Cambodgiennes’, Le Theatre 41:20.
Figure 2 Mata Hari in War Dance to Subramanya (1905), brandishing a keris
Figure 3 Takka-Takka and Yoga Taro (a.k.a. Ernest Neuschul) in their interpretation of Javanese dance (c. 1922). Photo courtesy Khalil Norland
Figure 4 Raden Mas Jodjana in Surya Thirta, inspired by Javanese and Balinese motifs (1930). Photo courtesy Parvati Chavoix-Jodjana
Figure 5 Ram Gopal in Javanese dance costume (1946). Photo courtesy South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive
Figure 6 Xenia Zarina in Javanese dance costume (c. 1940). From Xenia Zarina, Citation1967, Classic dances of the Orient. New York: Crown, p. 128. Courtesy Crown Publishers
Figure 7 Xenia Zarina in Balinese dance costume (c. 1940). From Xenia Zarina, Citation1967, Classic Dances of the Orient. New York: Crown, p. 152. Courtesy Crown Publishers
