Category: dancer, Tänzerin, danseuse, danzatrice, bailarina

Die Solotänzerin Tilly Losch, 1925

Trude Fleischmann :: Tilly Losch, prima ballerina from the Viennese National Opera (nº 1599), ca. 1925. [Die Solotänzerin der Wiener Staatsoper Tilly Losch (nº 1599). Wien. Photographie um 1925]. | src Getty Images
Trude Fleischmann :: Tilly Losch, prima ballerina from the Viennese National Opera (nº 1599), ca. 1925. [Die Solotänzerin der Wiener Staatsoper Tilly Losch (nº 1599). Wien. Photographie um 1925]. | src Getty Images

Wake up and Dream, 1929

Sasha [Alexander Stewart] :: «Lethal Losch». Tilly Losch dancing in an extravagant costume in a scene from the show `Wake up and Dream’, 6th April 1929. | source getty images 
Sasha [Alexander Stewart] :: «Tony and Tilly». Tilly Losch and Tony Birkmayr [Toni Birkmeyer] in ‘Wake up and Dream’ at the London Pavilion Theater, April 1929. | source Getty Images

Tilly Losch, UHU, 1928

Edith Barakovich :: Austrian dancer Tilly Losch (1903-1975). Published by UHU, May 1928 issue. | src Getty Images

Annette Kellerman, ca. 1910

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Elias Goldensky [American, b. Russia, 1867–1943] :: Autralian swimmer and actress Annette Kellerman, ca. 1910. | src George Eastman Museum via hauntedbystorytelling.tumblr.com

Tilly Losch as Princess Tea

Trude Fleischmann :: Tilly Losch as Princess Tea in Schlagobers (by Richard Strauss), 1924. | From State Opera ballerinas Tilly Losch and Hedy Pfundmayr are the focus of the exhibition at Wiener Photoinstitut Bonartes.

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

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)

Ruth St Denis by White studio

White Studio ~ Ruth St. Denis in costume (profile, bust), 1917 | src Alamy
White Studio ~ Ruth St. Denis in costume (three quarter length portrait), 1917 | src Alamy
White Studio ~ Ruth St. Denis in costume (full length portrait), 1917 | src Alamy

Ruth St Denis in profile

Siri Fischer-Schneevoigt :: Portrait in profile of dancer Ruth St. Denis, Berlin, 1906 | src NYPL
Portrait of Ruth St. Denis in wig and East Indian jewelry, 1906 (unspecified photographer) | src NYPL