Category: dance, Tanz, danse, danza, dansa, tansii

The Fokines in Cleopatre, 1914

Atelier Jaeger :: Michel Fokine and Vera Fokina in the Ballets Russes’ production of Cleopatra. Published in Comoedia Illustre, 1914. Music: Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka and Tcherepnin. Choreography and libretto: Michel Fokine. | src Flickr
Atelier Jaeger :: Michel Fokine and Vera Fokina in the Ballets Russes’ production of Cleopatra. Published in Comoedia Illustre, 1914. Music: Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka and Tcherepnin. Choreography and libretto: Michel Fokine. | src Flickr

The Dancer, ca. 1920

J. Anthony Bill :: The Dancer (image of a dancing figure with arms raised above their head and one knee raised in a static pose), Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1920. | src Collection of the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui

The Gift, 1921-1925

Madame Yevonde :: The Gift (Two figures inside a house. The male figure is wearing a harlequin costume, holding a white baton and reaching his hand towards the woman through a doorway. The woman is wearing a white dress with flowers in her hair and reaching towards the harlequin’s hand.), London, England, Great Britain, 1921-1925. | src Collection of the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui

Dancing for strength and beauty

Figure V. «Rising on the pointe and attitudes for balance». From “Dancing for strength and beauty (renascent dancing). A critical and practical treatise”, 1921 by Edward Scott. | src archive.org

Dancer Albertina Rasch, 1920s

G. Eder :: Albertina Rasch. One time première danseuse of the Imperial Opera of Vienna. She danced in the film "Virtuous Liars". Motion Picture Classic, October 1924 issue
G. Eder :: Albertina Rasch. One time première danseuse of the Imperial Opera of Vienna. She danced in the film “Virtuous Liars”. Motion Picture Classic, October 1924 issue
The Viennese ballerina and choreographer Albertina Rasch, circa 1920. George Grantham Bain News Service | src Amazon
G. Eder :: Albertina Rasch. One time première danseuse of the Imperial Opera of Vienna. She danced in the film "Virtuous Liars". Motion Picture Classic, October 1924 issue (Full page)
G. Eder :: Albertina Rasch. One time première danseuse of the Imperial Opera of Vienna. She danced in the film “Virtuous Liars”. Motion Picture Classic, October 1924 issue

La Jana, an erotic dancer, 1929

Arthur Benda [Atelier d’Ora~Benda] :: Carnaval. La Jana, een erotische danseres en filmactrice in de 20er jaren in fraaie carnavalskleding tijdens een bal in Wenen, 1929. | Carnival. La Jana (Henriette Margarethe Hiebel), an erotic dancer and film actress in a 1920s in fancy carnival attire at a ball in Vienna, 1929. | src Fotocollectie Het Leven