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"Pas de Deux"

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L'Art de la Métamorphose

Ruth St Denis

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Isadora Duncan (mother of lyrical dance)

Isadora Duncan « Elle danse.. elle est née pour danser… elle danserait jusqu’à mourir, sur ses pieds nus, merveilleusement muets. » Colette

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Anna Pavlova's swan costume.She died of illness at a relatively young age,and it is said that her last words were to ask that her swan costume be prepared

Anna Pavlova, 1920s Buy your Ballet Supplies from dancedivadancewear.co.uk

Anna Pavlova - "L'aube pénètre sur la pointe des pieds comme une Pavlova auréolée".

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James Abbe- Ida Rubinstein- Phaedre, 1923

Ida Rubinstein - Intense insoumise

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Tamara Karsavina. Album Reutlinger de portraits divers. Vol. 63 Vue 87. Source: Gallica BnF.

Russian ballet dancer Tamara Karsavina, Zobeida from "Scheherazade", 1911 // Photo by E.O. Hoppe.

Tamara karsaniva

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Loïe Fuller imitator, photograph by Marceau. Credited between 1890 and 1909. Via thewaltztrio on tumblr

Harry C. Ellis, Loïe Fuller dansant, 1914, aristotype sur papier, 18 x 12.3 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay.

Boudoir Cards - Belle Epoque Postcards - Loïe Fuller

Loïe Fuller - "La Fée Électricité " Icône et Muse de l'Art Nouveau

Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Nureyev... Pictures

an old photo of a woman with pearls on her head

Tamara Karsavina

Famous Ballet Dancers

Tamara Karsavina

Tamara Karsavina. Album Reutlinger de portraits divers. Vol. 63 Vue 87. Source: Gallica BnF.

an old fashion dress on display in a glass case with fur and feathers around it

Anna Pavlova's swan costume.She died of illness at a relatively young age,and it is said that her last words were to ask that her swan costume be prepared

three women in fur coats posing for a photo

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Rudolph Nureyev, Martha Graham and Margot Fonteyn

an old black and white photo of a woman wearing a crown sitting on the floor

Belly Dancing Classes

Adult Ballet

Les fleurs de l'art

Dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein

Dance Like No One Is Watching

Shall We Dance

Martha Graham and Ted Shawn, 1922. Now I know it's costumed up the ying yang however, this photo definitely shows some serious attitude. Bring it people. Just bring it! cd

an old photo of a woman dressed in costume and holding two hands with pearls on them

Ruth St. Denis in Radha.

Ruth St. Denis in Radha. by New York Public Library, via Flickr

an old photo of a woman sitting on the ground with her hands behind her head

Danse | La Petite Mélancolie | Ruth St. Denis in first costume for Radha, 1904

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Katta Sterna (dancer) 1925 by Trude Fleischmann / Katta Sterna, eigentlich Katharina Stern (* 19. Dezember 1897 in Berlin; † 29. Juli 1984 in Berlin) war eine deutsche Schauspielerin und Tänzerin