Tag: NYPL

Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn, 1916

Ira Lawrence Hill :: Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn in Dance of the Rebirth from the Egyptian section of the Review of Dance Pageant, 1916. | src NYPL~Jerome Robbins Dance Division

Women in balloon costume

Honor Blackman, English actress, wearing a bunch of balloons in a studio portrait, ca. 1950. Photo: Paul Popper | src Getty Images
Dancer Helen Barnes, wearing a costume and headpiece decorated with balloons. Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics. Photo: White (NY)

Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics : The Ziegfeld midnight frolics was an annual review playing at New York City’s New Amsterdam Roof that was produced from 1912 through 1929. “Helen Barnes, ‘Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic’, Danse de Follies, New Amsterdam Roof”– written on verso.

src New York Public Library (NYPL)

Ruth St Denis in profile

Siri Fischer-Schneevoigt :: Portrait in profile of dancer Ruth St. Denis, Berlin, 1906 | src NYPL
Portrait of Ruth St. Denis in wig and East Indian jewelry, 1906 (unspecified photographer) | src NYPL

La Sylphe · dancer suffrage

La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dancer Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL
La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dancer Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL
La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dancer Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL
La Sylphe, b. Edith Lambelle Langerfeld (the Dancer Suffrage), 1910s | src NYPL