Franz Xaver Setzer :: ‘Die Josefslegende’ by Richard Strauss. Dancers of the Vienna State Opera. Standing f.l.t.r.: Riki Raab; Anna Horvath and Hilde Steinlein. Front f.l.t.r.: Maria Mindszenty; Tilly Losch and Hedy Pfundmayr. Vienna, 1922. (Archiv Setzer-Tschiedel) | src and hi-res Getty Images
Nickolas Muray :: Dancer and choreographer Ruth St. Denis circa 1920s. Martha Graham began her dance studies at Denishawn in 1916, at the age of twenty-two. | src Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
Danseuse Cléo de Mérode dans les danses Cambodgiennes. Album Reutlinger de portraits divers, vol. 6. (1900s). | src Gallica ~ BnFDanseuse Cléo de Mérode dans les danses Cambodgiennes. Album Reutlinger de portraits divers, vol. 6. (1900s). | src Gallica ~ BnFDanseuse Cléo de Mérode dans les danses Cambodgiennes. Album Reutlinger de portraits divers, vol. 6. (1900s). | src Gallica ~ BnFDanseuse Cléo de Mérode dans les danses Cambodgiennes. Album Reutlinger de portraits divers, vol. 6. (1900s). | src Gallica ~ BnFDanseuse Cléo de Mérode dans les danses Cambodgiennes. Album Reutlinger de portraits divers, vol. 6. (1900s). | src Gallica ~ BnF
A scene from the lost film “The American Venus” (Frank Tuttle, 1926). Published in Film Fun, June 1926. | src internet archive «Lady in the left window: I wonder why Helen of Troy had such a reputation for beauty.» « Lady in the right window: Why, that’s easy to see. She got all her clothes from Paris.»
The original mermaid: Annette Kellerman (hands on hips) in harem-girl costume, standing on stage looking at a crested wading bird. Publicity photo for the three-hour epic A Daughter of the Gods (1916)| src NFSA ~ National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Mme. Ida Rubinstein dans le rôle de Cléopâtre. Photo Bért. Collection des plus beaux numéros de “Comœdia illustré” et des programmes consacrés aux ballets et galas russes depuis le début à Paris, 1909-1921. | src BnF ~ Gallica