Dance Collection (page 76)

Social / Blackpool Cabaret
A cabaret interlude in the Spanish courtyard of the Blackpool Winter Gardens - and the dance is of course Spanish in style

Racial / China Dancer 1904
Elegant Chinese dancer with a fan in each hand

Chinese Sword Dance performed by a male dancer

Birthday Ball, 1782
The birthnight of George III is celebrated with a ball at Saint Jamess Palace, London

Dance French Street
Dancing in the street on Bastille Day : the musicians have hung a sign to tell everyone this is a waltz

Dancer and Chorus
A leading dancer performs while the chorus girls hover in the background

Cupid and Jazz
Cupid is delighted as the jazz band stirs amorous emotions in a dancing couples hearts

Party / German Ball C1900
The bandleader exhorts the dancers to greater efforts at a lively German ball

The Polka-Quadrille
The Polka Quadrille - the polka at its most restrained, unlikely to offend the older generation

Musician and Dancer
A female dancer, a devotee of the god Apollo, sits out a dance at his side

Ball Room Guide
THE BALL ROOM GUIDE

A Private Dance, France
Fashionable dancers

Russian Country Dance
A country dance in Little Russia (southwest Russia, including Ukraine)

Two Women Tango C1912
Two stylishly dressed ladies dance the tango stylishly together

Tango (Photo)
She looks a bit apprehensive as she prepares to dance the tango with her smooth partner

Curtsey and Bow
At a childrens ball - she curtseys, he bows, before they start their dance

Ball Scene, Circa 1860
Ball room scene in the days of full skirts

Black Children Dance
Three black children - two girls and a boy - dance in traditional style

Overdoing the Polka
Polka Mania : the alarming effects of over-indulgence !

Polka too Violent
Polka Mania : too violent for some !

Cake Walking Couple
A black banjo-player and his white partner, both in carnival costume - is this New Orleans ? - perform the cake- walk

Tarantella on Terrace
On a Neapolitan terrace, a group of barefoot dancers perform a lively tarantella, clicking their castanets

Polka Disapproved 1844
Polka Mania : the perceived excesses of this savage dance are frowned upon by elders and authorities

Vaud Children Dance
Seven boys and girls from the Vaud canton dance in a ring

School Disco
Remember school discos, when all the boys looked lost and girls wore white stilettos with ankle socks?

Ball at Paris 1854
Ball at the Jardin d Hiver, Paris, in aid of the English charitable fund for victims of the war currently in progress in the Crimea in which France and Britain are allies

Dance in Private Home
A private dance - the dancers sustained by champagne in buckets

HORN DANCE
ABBOTS BROMLEY HORN DANCE: The troupe make their way to one of the large houses or farms in the district. The dance lasts all day and dates back over 1000 years

Horn Dance / Musto
ABBOTS BROMLEY HORN DANCE: The leader of the dance holding the antlers. The costume of oak leaf decorated breeches, velvet tammies & fancy waistcoat is clearly visible

Bears Dance Around Fire
Four bears dance around a fire in a circle holding hands

Dancing to Piano-Organ
Children in the street dance to the music of a piano-organ

Lithuanian Dance Bears
A spectator puts money in the cap held out by a performing bear from Lithuania, while musicians provide an accompaniment

French Village Fete
Fete in a French village : two couples dance to a fiddler seated on a trestle, outside the village inn

French Prefets Ball
Ball given by the Prefet de la Seine at the Hotel de Ville, Paris

Native American Healer
A Native American medicine man seeks to cure a patient by ritual dance

All the Dolls Began to Dance
A little girl wakes up to find her dolls dancing about to a grasshoppers fiddle. Wonder what she had for her tea?

Ladies Chain Dance
Ladies chain dance

Muse / Terpsichore
THE MUSE OF DANCE

Christmas Dancers
Dancers on Christmas Night are punished for their impiety, and condemned to dance for a whole year - a legend of the 15th century

Aristocratic Ballroom
An intricate step performed by two ladies and one man so impresses the rest of the dancers that they stop in their tracks to admire

Apollo Dances with Muses
They dance with their patron, Apollo

Amphion Builds Thebes
Amphion was so skilful a musician that he was able to build the city of Thebes, making the stones dance into place as he played

Dance / Tarantella / Reznick
A solo dancer performs the tarantella

Tango Dancing
Tango

Racial / Snake Dance 1908
Snake dance of the Hopi people of Arizona, performed with live and poisonous rattlesnakes which are set free after the ceremony, intended to bring rain

An Intermezzo with Fan
An attentive gentleman fans a young lady while they sit out a dance

A Christmas Adventure in the Land of Dreams
A festive Christmas scene featuring a group of children in their night clothes being invited to dance around a Christmas tree

Bayadere Dance
BAYADERE DANCE

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