Cabaret Ensemble ca. 1930

Cabaret Ensemble. Cabaret dancers rehearse in full costume, ca. 1930. (GPA / Freier Fotograf) | src getty images

Bill Henson · Untitled 1974

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 78, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 72, 1974 | Art gallery of NSW

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 73, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 66, 1974 | src Art gallery of New South Wales

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 65, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 67, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

‘Untitled 1974’ was one of Bill Henson’s earliest photographic series. When photographing the ballerinas, he found himself fascinated by faces, ‘lost to the world, absorbed in the dance. So I photographed their faces rather than their bodies. I was drawn to the spirit of some person in a space.’ Bill Henson 2004

Sequences are an important part of Henson’s work, creating a dialogue between the images and enhancing both the meaning and effect. An image that is hard to discern singularly becomes more readable as part of a sequence, while at the same time the whole sequence seems to become more ethereal and requiring of an emotional response. AG of NSW

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 54, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 52, 1974 | src Tolarno Galleries

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled, 1974 | Art gallery of NSW

**Bill Henson ~** Untitled # 31, 1974. Type C photograph | src Tolarno Galleries

Heldischer Tanz · Gisa Geert group

**Atelier d’Ora ~ Benda ::** ‘Heldischer Tanz’. Gisa Geert Tanzgruppe, Wien, um 1924 | src Ostlicht Auktionen & Terence Pepper Coll.

3 Viennese dancers (1929)

Three Viennese dancers. Hansi Koch, Loli Petri and Frauke Lauterbach. Cover photo: Die Bühne # 242, June 1929 | src ÖNB

Titelbild / Die Bühne, Heft 242, Juni 1929 : Drei Tanzende Wienerinnen. Hansi Koch, Loli Petri und Frauke Lauterbach, alle aus der Bodenwieser-Klasse. Sie tanzen einen der modernen Ausdrucks- und Bewegungs-tänze. Foto: Feldscharek

The Georgiewas by Manasse

**Atelier Manassé ~** The Bulgarian dancers Sonja and Katja Georgjeva, ca. 1930 | src MutualArt

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

Eine Berliner Tanzschule

Kammertanz-Gruppe Skoronel: Bizarres Getümmel | Skoronel chamber dance group : Bizarre hustle and bustle

Retrieved from the article:

Der klingende Baum. Eine Berliner Tanzschule. Scherl’s Magazin Band 5, H. 11, November 1929

The Ringing Tree. A Berlin dance school. Scherl’s magazine volume 5, issue 11, November 1929

Strenge Kompositionen | Rigorous compositions

Denishawn Dancers · 1918

Dancers in Egyptian costumes

**Stanisław Londyński ::** Dancers performing an Eastern dance at an unidentified theater in Paris, 1928. One of the dancers: Sophia Gruzewska. Illustrated Daily Courier (*) | src National Digital Archives of Poland

(*) original: Stanisław Londyński · Tancerki podczas wykonywania tańca wschodniego w nieustalonym teatrze w Paryżu, 1928. Dwie tancerki podczas tańca. Widoczna m.in. Zofia Grużewska. Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny | src Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

Two dancers by Delight Weston

Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

Irma Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed — **Irma Delight Weston ::** Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

These pictorial studies of two female dancers in motion are believed to have been taken at the former Ruth Doing Camp for Rhythmics in New York state’s Adirondack mountains. In the 1920’s and 30’s, photographer Delight Weston lived with camp founders Ruth Doing (1881-1966) and Gail Gardner (1878-1949) in New York City, along with other women artists, in a building at 139 W. 56th St. near Carnegie Hall.

Established in 1916, the summer camp was first located on the shores of Upper Chateaugay lake near Lyon Mountain until 1925, when it moved to Upper St. Regis Lake in Paul Smiths, New York. Renamed the Gardner-Doing Camp after this time, it was coeducational: besides regular summer camp activities, it specialized in the “rhythmic” style of dancing popularized by famed dancer Isadora Duncan, whom Ruth Doing was a former student of. Doing’s life partner, Michigan native Gail Gardner, had earlier made a name for herself as an accomplished and world-traveling opera singer. [quoted from Photoseed]

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