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

Dances of Palucca by Kandinsky

From: Wassily Kandinsky, “Tanzkurven: Zu den Tänzen der Palucca,” Das Kunstblatt, Potsdam, vol. 10, no. 3 (1926), pp. 117-21. ph. Charlotte Rudolph. | src German Historical Institute
From Wassily Kandinsky’s “Dance Curves: On the Dances of Palucca”. Published in Das Kunstblatt arts journal in 1926. Photos by Charlotte Rudolph. | src German Historical Institute

Tanzer Harald Kreutzberg

Will Burgdorf :: Dancer Harald Kreutzberg, around 1930s. | src apfelauge
Maurice Goldberg :: Drei aus Harald Kreutzbergs Sträflingstanz. | Three movement studies from Harald Kreutzberg’s ‘Convict dance’. Published in UHU magazine, January 1929 issue

Interpretive Dance, 1922

Jane Reece :: Interpretive Dance, 1922. | src billyjane. From Federica Muzzarelli, “Il corpo e l’azione. Donne e fotofrafia tra otto e novecento” (Atlante, Bologne, 2007) [ trad.: Femmes photographes – Émancipation et performance (1850-1940), Ed. Hazan, 2009]

Siri Sherki by Atelier von Behr

Portrait of Balinese dancer Siri Sherki by von Behr, 1930s
Atelier Von Behr :: Siri Sherki. Oriental Dancer, 1930s. Chlorobromide print. © Victoria & Albert Museum. The Royal Photographic Society. | src Getty Images
Atelier von Behr :: Siri Sherki. Oriental dancer, 1930s. Chlorobromide print. © Victoria & Albert Museum. The Royal Photographic Society. | src Getty Images

Atelier von Behr had a studio in New York at 20 West 8th Street and specialised in portraiture but little else is known about the company. (Getty Images)

Hannah Höch scrapbook, 1933

From Hannah Höch’s Album page (scrapbook), 1933. 
left: Dancer Gret Palucca, ca. 1925. ph, by Charlotte Rudolph (top) & Ursula Richter (bottom).
right: “Stabhochsprung” Athete high jumping (pole vault) and “Starke Geste im modernen Ausdrucktanz (Die Wigmanschülerin Vera Skoronel)”. Expressionist dancer (Wigman student, Vera Skoronel) ph. by Suse Byk. | src Female artists
Suse Byk :: Vera Skoronel, Postkarte, Privatbesitz. | src Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin on FB
Charlotte Rudolph :: Gret Palucca in Hochsprung, ca. 1925. Published in monthly magazine UHU, Feb. 1926. Uhu magazin was published between 1924 and 1934 in Berlin by Ullstein Verlag. | direct link to source
Ursula Richter :: Dancer Gret Palucca, ca. 1925. Published in monthly magazine UHU, Februar 1926.

Jean Börlin as the Prince, 1920

Le danseur Jean Börlin in ‘Maison de fous’ (as the Prince), 1920. Ballets Suédois. Photo Isabey. | src BnF, Bibliothèque-musée de l’Opéra via res musica 
Le danseur Jean Börlin in ‘Maison de fous’ (as the Prince), 1920. Ballets Suédois. Photo Isabey. | src BnF, Bibliothèque-musée de l’Opéra via res musica 
Jean Börlin as the Prince and Jolanda Figoni as The Wise Maiden in Dårhuset 1920. Dansmuseet IG
Jean Börlin som Prinsen och Jolanda Figoni som Den kloka flickan i Dårhuset 1920
Jean Börlin as the Prince and Jolanda Figoni as The Wise Maiden in Dårhuset, 1920. | Dansmuseet on IG