Category: dancer, Tänzerin, danseuse, danzatrice, bailarina

Berber by Binder in Die Dame 1927

Atelier Binder ~ German actress and dancer Anita Berber (1899-1928). Published in ‘Die Dame’ 5/1927 | src getty images
Atelier Binder ~ German actress and dancer Anita Berber, ca. 1927 (detail)

Bea Egervary by Manasse ca. 1928

Atelier Manassé ~ The dancer Bea Egervary, ca. 1928 | src Lempertz via luminous lint ll/56616
Atelier Manassé ~ The dancer Bea Egervári (undated, likely ca. 1928) | src OstLicht 5th photo auction
Atelier Manassé ~ Die Tänzerin Bea Egervary. In: Das Leben, November 1928
Atelier Manassé ~ Die Tänzerin Bea Egervary. In: Revue des Monats, November 1928

Slavenska in Triumphant David

Mia Slavenska in ‘Triumphant David’. Paris, theatre Cite Universitaire, December 1936. (Detail) | src getty images
Mia Slavenska in ‘Triumphant David’. Paris, theatre Cite Universitaire, December 1936. (Roger-Viollet) | src getty images
Mia Slavenska in ‘Triumphant David’. Paris, theatre Cite Universitaire, December 1936. (Roger-Viollet) | src getty images

Mia Slavenska bending back

Mia Čorak Slavenska (1916-2002): one of the greatest ballerinas of all time who was also called a masterpiece of human mechanics Photographer’s blindstamp on right bottom (G. Reputin?) Zagreb | src Zadovoljna

La Jana in the film Truxa · 1937

La Jana. Tanzszene aus dem Film ‘Truxa‘ mit Tamburin. Regie: Hans H. Zerlett, nach dem Roman von Heinrich Seiler. Deutschland, 1936 (23.01.1936) | src getty images
Truxa (1937) Illustrierter Film-Kurier (IFK) Filmprogramm Nr. 2564 (BFK : Berliner Film-Kurier) | src eBay
La Jana (aka Jenny Hiebel) in a dance scene with a tambourine from the movie 'Truxa' (Hans H. Zerlett, 1937). Published by 'Die Dame' 04/1937 | src getty images
La Jana (aka Jenny Hiebel) in a dance scene with a tambourine from the movie ‘Truxa’ (Hans H. Zerlett, 1937). Published by ‘Die Dame’ 04/1937 | src getty images
La Jana [b. Henriette Margarethe Hiebel] in the film ‘Truxa‘ (Hans H. Zerlett, 1937) | src getty images
La Jana in a dance scene from the movie ‘Truxa’ (Hans H. Zerlett, 1936). Published by Berliner Morgenpost 18.01.1937 | src getty images
La Jana and Ernst Fritz Fürbringer in ‘Truxa‘ (Regie: Hans H. Zerlett). Published by ‘Hier Berlin’ 36/1936 | src getty images
La Jana in the film ‘Truxa’. Regie: Hans H. Zerlett (1937). Published by ‘B.Z.’ 14.08.1936 | src getty images

Marfushka · Shadowland · 1923

Eugene P. Henry ~ MARFUSHKA. Martha Sleeper. Shadowland magazine, July 1923 | src internet archive

caption reads: MARFUSHKA / Martha Sleeper, the talented twelve-year old dancer, as she appears in one of her Russian numbers

photographer: Eugene P. Henry

Eugene Henry ~ MARFUSHKA. Martha Sleeper. Shadowland magazine, July 1923 (full page) | src internet archive

2 Studie · Foto Salon Manasse

Atelier Manassé (active between 1922–1938) ~ ‘Studie’ (Posing with an artificial leg), ca. 1926 | src Ostlicht

Studio’s signature “Manassé Wien” in the negative, with a vintage paper label with typewritten mention “Zensuriert”. “Foto-Salon ‘Manassé'” copyright stamp, “Wiener Foto-Kurier” agency stamp as well as “Ag. Schostal” agency label, and annotated “Studie” in pencil on the reverse.

Atelier Manassé ~ ‘Studie’ (with a paper label with typewritten mention “Zensuriert”), ca. 1926. Vintage silver print | src Ostlicht
Atelier Manassé (active between 1922–1938) ~ ‘Studie’. Art Deco dance pose, ca. 1927 | src Ostlicht

Dance group by Kitty Hoffmann

Kitty Hoffmann (1900–1968) ~ Posing [Trude Goodwin] dance group, ca. 1930 | src Ostlicht

Photographer’s copyright stamp with handwritten number “4949” in pencil, annotation “Tanzgruppe Trude Goodwin” and handwritten numbers in pencil on the reverse.

Atelier Kitty Hoffmann (1900–1968) ~ Trude Goodwin Tanzgruppe, ca. 1930 | src Ostlicht