The Russian Art of Movement

Nicoletta Misler: The Russian Art of Movement 1920-1930 Umberto Allemandi & Co. (January 2018)
One of the many mages from the book that represent the role of movement in dance, in gymnastics, in Russian Avant-garde. The book is the result of research that began in the late 1970s and culminated in the 2011 publication in Moscow of V Natsjale Bilo Telo (In the Beginning was the Body), on the 1920s experiments in movement in the Soviet Union. | src Allemandi

Elise Dufour Dancers ca. 1919

Arnold Genthe :: Elise Dufour dancers, between 1918 and 1920. Nitrate negative. | src Library of Congress
Arnold Genthe :: Elise Dufour Dancers, 1918-1920. | src MK&G ~ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg

Young dancers outdoors

Young Dancers, photograph of two young people in an outdoor dance performance (1940s to 1964) | src Stella Knight Ruess archives ~ Utah.edu
Young Dancers, photograph of two young people in an outdoor dance performance (Detail)
Young Dancers, photograph of two young people in an outdoor dance performance (1940s to 1964) | src Univ. of Utah

Morgan dancers and piper

Photograph from Stella Knight Ruess (1879-1964) scrapbook: open air dance performance with piper and Morgan (?) dancers
Page 4; from the Scrapbook kept by Stella Knight Ruess | src University of Utah library @ Omnia & MWDL
Page 4 (bottom); from the Scrapbook kept by Stella Knight Ruess | src University of Utah @ Omnia & MWDL
Photograph from Stella Knight Ruess (1879-1964) scrapbook: open air dance performance with piper and Morgan (?) dancers

Tanzaufnahme von Franz Löwy

Franz Löwy :: Dance scene, from the “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” in Paris 1925
Fotografie einer Tanzaufnahme von Franz Löwy auf der “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes” in Paris 1925 (vom Bearbeiter vergebener Titel) | src MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst

Cilly Wang in ‘The fright’, 1932

Bruno Winterfeld ~ De danseres Cilly Wang ibeedt hier ‘De schrik’ uit met een onbekende danseres. Wenen, Oostenrijk, 1932
Dancer Cilli Wang performs ‘The fright’ with an unknown dancer. Vienna, Austria, 1932 | src Fotocollectie Het Leven