Category: dancer, Tänzerin, danseuse, danzatrice, bailarina

Lo Hesse in Tschaikiun, 1921

Franz Xaver Setzer :: German dancer Lo Hesse in a Chinese pantomime [Tschaikiun] and wearing a mask, Vienna, 1921. Costume design by Walter Schnackenberg. | src Imagno · Getty Images
Walter Schnackenberg :: Ballet und Pantomime ‘Tschaikiun’ II (Lo Hesse), 1920. | src Colletti Gallery
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Atelier Setzer, Wien (1909 – 1939 Atelier) :: Lo Hesse. Rollenpörtrat. Fotopapier auf Karton. | src Theatermuseum Wien
Walter Schnackenberg :: Ballet und Pantomime ‘Tschaikiun’ I, print # 3 (Lo Hesse), 1920. | src 1st dibs

Dancer Dinah Grace, 1930s

Lotte Jacobi :: Dancer Dinah Grace, Berlin, 1930s. | src realityayslum [‘Grace was very young when this picture was taken, but Lotte thought she was the best dancer she ever photographed. She was amazed at how easily Grace could move and do anything asked of her.’ quoted and scanned from ‘Lotte Jacobi: Theater & Dance Photographs’, Countryman Press, 1982.]

Hilary Napier by M. Michaelis

Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ No title [Hilary Napier in ‘Exaltation’], 1947 | src NGA
Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ Bodenwieser Ballet open air performance, featuring Hilary Napier, 1940 | src NLA · National library of Australia

Ruth Bayton by Willinger

Laszlo Willinger ~ French revue dancer Ruth Bayton with banana skirt in the Revue ‘Der Zug nach dem Westen’ (The Train to the West) at the Apollo Theater, 1927 (published: Quer (sic) 5/1927) | src Getty Images

Ruth Bayton by Atelier Balasz

Atelier Balasz ~ Ruth Bayton of the Folies Wagram. Full lenght portrait in a banana skirt, role-picture in the Revue ‘Der Zug nach dem Westen’ (The Train to the West), 1926. Published in ‘Berliner Morgenpost’ 10.11.1926. | src Getty Images

Margaret Chapple by M. Michaelis

Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ Margaret Chapple, Sydney, 1950 | src NGA

Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ Bodenwieser Ballet performance of the handicraft scene in Pilgrimage of Truth, featuring Margaret Chapple, ca. 1950 | src NLA

According to source, the image above may have been a promotional photograph taken for the Bodenwieser Ballet’s tour of South Africa in 1950

Margaret Michaelis (1902-1985) ~ No title [Margaret Chapple in ‘The Imaginary Invalid’], Sydney, 1950 | src NGA
Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902-1985) ~ Dancer [Margaret Chapple], Sydney, 1950 | src NGA

Rigmor Rasmussen by Balasz

Atelier Balázs ~ Dancer Rigmor Rasmussen wearing a golden dance costume. Published in ‘Die Dame’ 10/1928 | src getty images