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

La Sylphe, 1910s

La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dance of Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL
La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dance of Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL
La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dance of Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL
La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dancer Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL

Florence Noyer dancer, 1910s

Arnold Genthe :: Dancer Hilda Carling, a dramatic and beautiful view of her. Classically posed, captured in a soft focus pictorialist style. Carling belonged to the touring troupe which spread the guidelines of natural movement and expressive style pioneered by Florence Fleming Noyes, between 1915 and 1918. | src Flickr and Library of Congress

Florence F. Noyes, 1913

Miss Florence Noyes who will pose as Liberty [in the woman’s rights tableau on the Treasury Department building steps] 1913. Bain News Service. | src Library of Congress

Dance of Freedom, 1914

A still from the archival video of Florence Noyes’s Dance of Freedom. Photo courtesy Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, Library and Archives Canada. “Movement was more than a metaphor for the fight for women’s suffrage—dancers played a real role, most notably Florence Fleming Noyes, who performed her riveting solo Dance of Freedom in 1914 to embody the struggle for women’s rights.” quoted from source. | src Dance magazine

Katta Sterna als Prinz, 1916

Zander & Labisch :: Katta Sterna als Prinz Sing Ling in ‘Die grüne Flöte‘, Berlin, 1916. Fotopostkarte. | src Berlin Stadtmuseum Sammlung Max Reinhardt / Leonhard M. Fiedler