Edward Steichen :: Dancer Margaret Severn pulling up her skirt and wearing lace bloomers. / src: Condé Nast online store

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Vera Fokina by Atelier Jaeger

Atelier Jaeger (Stockholm) :: Dancer Vera Petrovna Fokina (1886-1958) in Cléopâtre, choreographic drama in one act. Choreography by Michel Fokine. Stockholm Royal Theatre, 1913 [detail] | src BnF · Gallica — **Atelier Jaeger** (Stockholm) :: Dancer Vera Petrovna Fokina (1886-1958) in Cléopâtre, choreographic drama in one act. Choreography by Michel Fokine. Stockholm Royal Theatre, 1913 [detail] | src BnF · Gallica

Willy Rizzo :: Leslie Caron, Opéra de Paris, 1950 / src frenchvintagegallery

via aintthatakick

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Maurice Goldberg :: An Autumn Idyll. A Camera Study. Published in Theatre Magazine, November 1920 issue. / src: University of Toronto Library

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Edward Steichen :: American actress Gilda Gray in character as a Javanese dancer, August 1923 / source: Condé Nast online store

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Nickolas Muray ::

Desha Delteil in a Roman inspired full body costume, with winged feet and a headdress. The light play in this pictorialist view is astounding, her shadow becomes another character in the dance. The spotlight followed the dancing of Desha thru the Fokine Ballet and the ‘Rose of Stamboul’. Published in Shadowland, Oct. 1922 issue. / sources: grapefruitmoongallery and

Library of Congress: Moving Image Section

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Maurice Beck & Helen Macgregor :: Choreographer and dancer Léonide Massine in costume for the Ballets Russes’ ballet Le Carnaval, playing a small mandolin, seated in a reclined position with one foot resting on the opposite knee, wearing a costume designed by Leon Bakst consisting of beret, blouson pants, and an embroidered robe. Published in Vanity Fair, November 1st, 1923 | src: Condé Nast via Getty

Maurice Goldberg ::

Hindu dancer

Ryllis Barnes Simpson, aka Hasoutra, posing as the snake woman, New York, 1926 / src Historical Ziegfeld Group

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Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Portrait of Japanese dancer Michio Ito as ‘The Hawk’ in W.B. Yeats play: At the Hawk’s Well, 1916

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GIF with various images by Alvin Langdon Coburn of Japanese dancer Michio Ito

rehearsing

as ‘The Hawk’ in
William Butler Yeats’ half Celtic half Japanese Noh play: At the Hawk’s Well, 1916

/
From the exhibition, Simon Starling: At Twilight (After W.B. Yeats’ Noh Reincarnation). Its goal is to examine how the

uniquely

highly stylized ancient
Japanese art form of Noh has shaped art outside of Japan in multiple mediums throughout the twentieth century.

/ src Columbia University in the City of New York