Jumper by Karl H. Lämmel

**Karl Heinrich Lämmel ~** A woman doing a jump at the Logau school for women’s gymnastics in Hanover, 1930s | src alamy

**Karl Heinrich Lämmel ~** Eine Frau bei einem Sprung in der Logau Musterschule für Frauenturnen in Hannover, 1930er Jahre | src alamy

Gymnastics · Finland · 1933

**Rainer Sopanen ~** Voimistelua | Gymnastics, 1933. JOKA Journalistinen kuva-arkisto | src museovirasto
Gymnastics photo from book “Soita sinä, me voimistelemme”

Detail from image on top : Gymnastics (1933) by Rainer Sopanen

Gymnastics at Tanhuvaara

Water nymphs on a seaside rock (Finnish : Vedenneitoja rantakivellä) | src Museovirasto
Female gymnasts on a rock on the shore of Tanhuvaara gymnastics home in Pappilanniemi (the Bay of Vyborg) 1930.

Detail of image on top : Gymnastics at Tanhuvaara in 1930

Helga Golze um 1940

Variety artist Helga Golze (*1924), the “Jump wonder” “Helgina” from Berlin. Gelatin silver prints. Around 1940 | src JVV

Some stamped on the reverse and / or on the recto with the photographer’s signature of S. Enkelmann (partially on Agfa Brovira photo paper) and Foto-Schreyer Berlin. (JVV)

Varieté Künstlerin Helga Golze (*1924), dem “Spring-Wunder” “Helgina” aus Berlin. Silbergelatineabzüge. Um 1940 | src Jeschke Jádi Auktionen Berlin (JVV)

Frieda and Louis Berkoff

Dancer Frieda Berkoff during a leap in the air. Underwood & Underwood. 1920s | src catawiki

Dancers Louis and Frieda Berkoff during a leap in the air. Underwood & Underwood. 1920s | src catawiki

Press Agency / Newspaper Stamp on the reverse reads: S/644A309 By Underwood and Underwood. / Louise and Frieda Berkoff. Here’s action: How many can do this? / For once in his life “Old Man Gravity”, the well known friend of Isaac Newton, came out second best when Louis and Frieda Berkoff prectised these spectacular flying “steps” of a new Russian dance on the lawn of the Carthay Circle, a Los Angeles suburb.
Photo shows: brother and sister “Up in the air”. An exclusive Underwood photograph. Watch your credit line

Domino de lumière (1933)

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Le domino de lumière (1933) par André Steiner (Andor Steiner)

André Steiner (Andor Steiner) :: Le domino de lumière, Paris, 1933, tirage argentique. — **André Steiner** (Andor Steiner) :: Le domino de lumière, appartement de la rue Gambetta, Paris, 1933, tirage argentique d’exposition.

André Steiner (Andor Steiner) :: Le domino de lumière, appartement de la rue Gambetta, Paris, 1933, tirage argentique. — **André Steiner** (Andor Steiner) :: Le domino de lumière, appartement de la rue Gambetta, Paris, 1933, tirage argentique.

All images from Binoche et Giquello and Giquello & Associés

Jenny Hasselqvist in midair

Jenny Hasselqvist in Charlottenlund, Denmark, photo: unknown, 8 May 1919. | src Dansmuseet on IG

Jenny Hasselquist på taket till [Jenny Hasselquist on the roof] Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 29 oktober 1920, Jenny Hasselquists arkiv. | src Dansmuseet · IG — Jenny Hasselquist på taket till [Jenny Hasselquist on the roof] Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 29 oktober 1920, Jenny Hasselquists arkiv. | src Dansmuseet · IG

Leaping dancer by Delight Weston

Irma Delight Weston :: Dance Liftoff, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed — **Irma Delight Weston ::** Dance Liftoff, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

Delight Weston :: Airborne dancer, 1921. Bromide print. — **Irma Delight Weston ::** Airborne dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

These pictorial studies of a female dancer leaping 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]