Tag: dance figure

Why are people dancing?

Marion Herrmann :: Tanzgruppe Marion Herrmann. Warum tanzen die Menschen? Tempo Magazin, 1927, Heft 2.
Arnold Genthe :: Aus Mary Wigmans Totentanz. Gestaltung durch kรผnstlerischen Tanz [Mary Wigman’s Dance of Death]. Tempo Magazin, 1927, Heft 2
Marion Herrmann :: Tรคnze Marion Herrmanns zu Paul Hindemiths Mechanischer Orgel [Dances by Marion Herrmann to Paul Hindemith’s mechanical organ]. Tempo Magazin, 1927, Heft 2.

‘Der Idiot’, 1952

Siegfried Enkelmann :: ‘Der Idiot’, 1952. Dancers Wiet Pilar and Harald Horn from the Berlin Ballet performing a scene from โ€žThe Idiotโ€œ, a ballet based on Dostoyevskyโ€™s novel. Print annotated in pencil (on verso) | src eBay

Four dancers by Frantisek Drtikol

Frantiลกek Drtikol (Czech, 1883-1961) ~ Dancers, late 1920s – early 1930s | src Aleyna Gรผlbahar ~ Onedio รœyesi
Frantiลกek Drtikol (Czech, 1883-1961) ~ Dancers, late 1920s | src Vintage Works Ltd.

Expressionist dance ‘Relief’, 1931

Atelier d’Ora -Benda :: A dance group of the Bodenwieser Dance Centre performs the expressionist dance ‘Relief’, 1931 (Photo by Arthur Benda – Ullstein Bild). | src Getty Images

Cochran Freaks, 1930

Sasha (Alexander Stewart) :: Serge Lifar and Alice Nikitina in a scene from the ‘Freak Ballet’ choreographed by George Balanchine, and shown in the Cochran Revue, at the London Pavilion Theatre, April 1930. | src Hulton Archive – Getty Images