Madame d’Ora & Arthur Benda - Six nude studies of the dancer Rigmor Rasmussen, c.1927.
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1) Hands and Movement, c1935.
2) Nude and Wire, c1935.
3) Dancer Dancing, 1940s.
4) Untitled (Dancers with light traces), from the Portfolio Portfolio No.4 The female form, 1940s.
5) Untitled (Dancer), from the Portfolio Portfolio No.4 The female form, 1937.
6) Impassioned clay, 1936.
7) Untitled (Female nude with cloth overlay), 1930s.
8) Nude in grass, 1939.
9) Untitled (Nude behind screen), from the Portfolio Portfolio No.4 The female form, 1930s.
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Portrait of German dancer Marianne Vogelsan by Siegfried Enkelmann, c1954.
Tanz der Zeit / Dance of Time featuring Liselotte Koster & Gabor Orban. Photo by Siegfried Enkelmann, 1948.
Nickolas Muray - Nude Dancer, 1925.
Martha Graham’s Letter to the World, 1940, by Charlotte Trowbridge.
These drawings seem to me as a dancer to be images of what might be called the frenzy which animates the dancer’s body frame from within. It is this anatomy with which Charlotte Trowbridge is concerned, rather than with the portraiture or with the record of the dance as picture. If it is the sentiment of an event or the likeness of a dancer’s face or body which is sought, then these drawings will not give it. She does not seek to record but to reveal. It is her ability to intuit the state of imaginative reality which is dance which makes her unique drawings penetrating and powerful and sometimes frightening. …~ Martha Graham, introduction to Charlotte Trowbridge’s 1945 book Dance Drawings of Martha Graham.
… via The New York Public Library Archive Project 2012 & Fred Hatt.
Nickolas Muray - Portrait of Dancer Mikhail Mordkin, c.1924.
… via the George Eastman House
Imogen Cunningham - Adolf Bolm Ballet Intime Dancers, 1921.
Barbara Morgan - Doris Humphrey, With My Red Fires (Swirl), 1938.
… from Barbara Morgan, edited - designed by Barbara Morgan, A Morgan & Morgan Monograph, 1972.
Barbara Morgan - Valerie Bettis in The Desparate Heart, 1944. Photomontage II
… from Barbara Morgan, edited - designed by Barbara Morgan, A Morgan & Morgan Monograph, 1972.
Martin Munkácsi - Dinah Grave - at the Wintergarten, 1935.
Maya Goded - Ciudad de México. 2004.
Jeanloup Sieff - Coulisses de la Cuevas, c1960.
… via Artfinding
Miss Margaret Severn by Arnold Genthe, 1920-1922.
… via the Library of Congress
Ruth St Denis and Ted Shawn in Dance of the Rebirth. Photo by White Studios (most likely Edward Thayer Monroe), 1917.
… via the New York Public Library Digital Gallery
