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 Golberg :: Unidentified dancer in Bombo, 1921-1922 / src
Museum of the city of New York, via madivinecomedie

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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

Tanzschülerin, 11-1929

**Georg Pahl ::** Tanzschülerin vor einem Fenste, Tanzschule Laban. | Dance student in a window. Rudolf Laban dance school, Berlin-Grunewald, ca. November 1929 | src Das Bundesarchiv
Original title: Aus dem Coreographischen Institut Laban in Berlin-Grunewald! Schönheit im Tanz. | related post on tumblr

Lester Horton in his 1929 work Pueblo Eagle Dance Nº 5 / src: NYC Dance Stuff

James Wallace Pondelicek :: The Sword. “Mlle. Theo Hewes, assisted by M. Symanski, in a picturesque Oriental dance developed from an old Japanese legend”. Published in Shadowland. January 1923 issue.
/ src: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section

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James Wallace Pondelicek :: Untitled.

Published in the magazine Shadowland, issue of Jan. 1923. / src: Library of Congress: Moving Image Section

Mademoiselle Terpsichore at Tivoli Theatre,

Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, ca. 1923 (Unidentified photographer)

The image shows an exotic dancer ‘Terpoichore:’ performing at the Tivoli Theatre. The inscription reads: “To Little Eunice, from Terpoichore”

source: State Library of Queensland