The forecast heatwave seems to have arrived in full force today and it’s far too hot to actually dance, so here are some vintage photos of people dancing their socks off to keep us all entertained. Thinking about doing exercise is almost as good as doing it, right?
Oh, and I’d like to know your opinion. I suspect the ballet dancers pictured in 1887 are actually all men in drag – what do you think? Also, which is your favourite costume?
Leon Woizikowsky as the golden slave and Nina Raievska as Zoebeide in Scheherazade, Monte Carlo Russian Ballet, 1937
tudio portrait of a young woman in ballet costume striking a pose with arms behind her back. She wears a headscarf, bracelets, dancing costume and ballet shoes. She poses against a cloth backdrop representing a road and riverbank. 1910
Photograph taken for a Truth newspaper feature on Mr S.G. Webber and Miss Dora Buchanan, who had won the Australian Championship for ballroom dancing. The couple gave classes at their studio in Ewing House, Adelaide Street, Brisbane. Photograph taken April 1932.
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Ballet school, Washington Square players c. 1915
Miss Finney dancing, Montreal, QC, 1923
Alison Lee, stage name Helene Lineva and star of the Original Ballet Russe, 1939-1940, posing in the studio, Sydney / photographer Max Dupain
Colonel de Basil’s “Original Ballet Russe” (Russian Ballet) season, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1939-1940
Rehearsal for “Aurora’s wedding” with Tamara Toumanova (wearing the fur coat) , Michael Panaieff, Anton Vlassoff and Oleg Tupine, 1940.
Halina Schmolz & Alex Volinin c. 1910-1915
Anna Pavlova c. 1947
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in Egyptian Ballet.
Tatiana Riabouchinska and Roman Jasinsky in Les Dieux mendiants (The Gods go a-begging), between Nov 1938-Aug 1940 / photograph by Max Dupain
Gwen Caine of Bowen ready for a dancing recital. She is seen in her dancing costume, posing on pointe. 1925
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Melba L. Procter & H.E. Marshall Hall c. 1920
Thamar Karsarvina between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915
This image shows an exotic dancer ‘Terpoichore:’ performing at the Tivoli Theatre. The inscription reads: “To Little Eunice, from Terpoichore” c. 1935
Harry Furniss, (who worked in Australia as Paul Furniss), actor, director, author, singer and dancer, ca. 1927-1939
Valrene Tweedie as an Odalisque in ‘Scheherazade’, Chicago, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1947-48
Ballet dancers c 1887
Alison Lee, stage name Helene Lineva and star of the Original Ballet Russe, 1939-1940
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