Tag: 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

Actresses portraits by Manassé

Atelier Manassé (1922–1938) ~ Actress and Charleston dancer Bee Jackson, Vienna, ca. 1930 | src Ostlicht

Bee Jackson (1903–1933) was best known for dancing the Charleston, performed on Broadway, in the Ziegfeld Follies and in London, Vienna, and Paris. Tragically she died following an appendicitis operation at the age of 30.

Atelier Manassé (1922–1938) ~ Actress Thyra Winge, ca. 1925 | src Ostlicht

Studio’s signature “Manassé” in both negatives, “Foto-Salon ‘Manassé'” copyright stamp in red ink, “Wiener Foto-Kurier” agency stamp on the reverse.

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