Carmen Tortola Valencia, 1912

Walter Schnackenberg :: The dancer Carmen Tortola Valencia, 1912. Watercolour, brush and India ink and opaque white over pencil on paper. | src Grisebach Autumn Auctions 2020
Walter Schnackenberg :: The dancer Carmen Tortola Valencia, 1912. Watercolour, brush and India ink and opaque white over pencil on paper. | src Grisebach Autumn Auctions 2020

Lea Niako, Das Leben, 1927

Ernst Sandau :: Tänzerin Lea Niako. Published in Das Leben, August 1927 issue. | src Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
Tänzerin Lea Niako. Published in Das Leben, August 1927 issue. Phot. Sandau, Berlin. | src Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft

Dancer Maria Moreno

George Rinhart :: “Pretty Maria Moreno, who is gaining prominence through her classical dances which she conceives and executes. She is a native Italian.” (original caption) | src Getty Images

Simone Lancret par Rudomine

Mlle. Simone Lancret (des Ballets russes). Studio Rudomine. Paris-plaisirs: revue mensuelle esthétique et humoristique Nº 7. Décembre, 1922. | src BnF ~ Gallica
Mlle. Simone Lancret (des Ballets russes). Studio Rudomine. Paris-plaisirs: revue mensuelle esthétique et humoristique Nº 7. Décembre, 1922. | src BnF ~ Gallica
Mlle. Simone Lancret (des Ballets russes). Studio Rudomine. Paris-plaisirs: revue mensuelle esthétique et humoristique Nº 7. Décembre, 1922. | src BnF ~ Gallica

Halina Dorsowna par Waléry

Waléry :: "Mlle. Halina Dorsowna aux Folies - Bergère". Paris-plaisirs: revue mensuelle esthétique et humoristique Nº 73. Janvier, 1928. | src BnF ~ Gallica
Waléry :: "Mlle. Halina Dorsowna aux Folies - Bergère". Paris-plaisirs: revue mensuelle esthétique et humoristique Nº 73. Janvier, 1928. | src BnF ~ Gallica
Waléry :: “Mlle. Halina Dorsowna aux Folies – Bergère”. Paris-plaisirs: revue mensuelle esthétique et humoristique Nº 73. Janvier, 1928. | src BnF ~ Gallica

L’Art et le Nu au Music-Hall

"L'Art et le Nu au Music-Hall". Paris-plaisirs: revue mensuelle esthétique et humoristique. Janvier, 1925. | src BnF ~ Gallica
"L'Art et le Nu au Music-Hall". Paris-plaisirs: revue mensuelle esthétique et humoristique. Janvier, 1925. | src BnF ~ Gallica [uncredited photographer]
“L’Art et le Nu au Music-Hall”. Paris-plaisirs: revue mensuelle esthétique et humoristique. Janvier, 1925. | src BnF ~ Gallica

Acrobatic dancers · Nudes

Laure Albin-Guillot ~ Danseuse acrobatique, 1937. Gelatin silver print. | src Heritage Auctions
Laure Albin Guillot (née Laure Meffredi) ~ Étude de nus, ca. 1935. Tirage argentique d’époque signe au crayon en bas a droite.
Indications au crayon pour une reproduction au verso. | src Leclere maison de ventes
Laure Albin-Guillot ~ Danseuse acrobatique, 1937. Gelatin silver print. | src Heritage Auctions

Danse javanesque, 1916

W. G. Fitz (*) :: Javanese dance. Cleveland, USA, 1916. Vintage gelatin silver print, calligraphed in pencil at the top of the image: «Danse javanesque». | src Ader
(*) Grancel Fitz or W.G. Fitz, a Philadelphia pictorialist that published a review [“A Few Thoughts on the Wanamaker Exhibition”] of the Wanamaker Exhibition on Camera 22, April 1918, was a well known photographer in the advertising world in the 1930s.

Lotte Neelsen: Tanzkunst

12 Akt-Entwürfe aus der Tanzkunst von Lotte Neelsen. Verlag: Waldemar Heldt, Hamburg, n.d. [1924]. The twelve photographs were taken in the studio of W. Paulsen in Hamburg. Neelsen’s images presents the dancer in a studio setting against the prevailing tendency at the time in Germany to see naked dancing as an open air activity. | src Voewood Rare Books
Verkündung. 12 Akt-Entwürfe aus der Tanzkunst von Lotte Neelsen. Verlag: Waldemar Heldt, Hamburg, n.d. [1924]. | src Voewood Rare Books
Studie. 12 Akt-Entwürfe aus der Tanzkunst von Lotte Neelsen. Verlag: Waldemar Heldt, Hamburg, n.d. [1924]. | src Voewood Rare Books
Sonnensfrahlen. 12 Akt-Entwürfe aus der Tanzkunst von Lotte Neelsen. Verlag: Waldemar Heldt, Hamburg, n.d. [1924]. | src Voewood Rare Books

Lotte Neelsen, 1924

Lotte Neelsen. 12 Akt-Entwürfe aus der Tanzkunst von Lotte Neelsen. Hergestellt in echtem Kupfertiefdruck. Verlag: Woldemar Heldt, Hamburg, 1924. | 12 nude designs from Lotte Neelsen’s The Art of Dance. Manufactured in genuine intaglio printing. Published by Woldemar Heldt, Hamburg, 1924. Photos by W. Paulsen (Hamburg). | src eBay
Abend. From: 12 Akt-Entwürfe aus der Tanzkunst von Lotte Neelsen. Hergestellt in echtem Kupfertiefdruck. Verlag: Woldemar Heldt, Hamburg, 1924. | src eBay
Flöfenspielerin (Flute player). From: 12 nude designs from Lotte Neelsen’s The Art of Dance. Manufactured in genuine intaglio printing. Published by Woldemar Heldt, Hamburg, 1924. | src eBay
Mazurka. From: 12 Akt-Entwürfe aus der Tanzkunst von Lotte Neelsen. Hergestellt in echtem Kupfertiefdruck. Verlag: Woldemar Heldt, Hamburg, 1924. | src eBay
Märchen (Fairy Tale). From: 12 nude designs from Lotte Neelsen’s The Art of Dance. Manufactured in genuine intaglio printing. Published by Woldemar Heldt, Hamburg, 1924. | src eBay
Verkündung, from: 12 nude designs from Lotte Neelsen’s The Art of Dance. Manufactured in genuine intaglio printing. Published by Woldemar Heldt, Hamburg, 1924. | src Zvab
Fabel. From: 12 Akt-Entwürfe aus der Tanzkunst von Lotte Neelsen. Hergestellt in echtem Kupfertiefdruck. Verlag: Woldemar Heldt, Hamburg, 1924. | src Zvab