Dancers Collection (#23)

Japan - The Dance of the Fisherwomen - The Views of Tojinbo Date: 1912

South Africa - Zulu Marriage Dance Date: circa 1901

Eastern Russia - Transbaikalia - Tsam ceremony
Eastern Russia - Transbaikalia - Buddhist Tsam ceremony amongst the Buryat People to exorcise evil which consisted of a series of masked dances and often had a narrative content

Native Dancers, Mexico - wearing elaborate costumes which are a real mish-mash of Roman Catholic and traditional styles. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Flower Arranging and Japanese Dancing - decorative surround. Date: circa 1910s

Tibetan Dancers in Darjeeling, India. Date: circa 1910s

Lamas perform Divinity Dance, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Tibetan Buddhist Lamas perform a Divinity Dance, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Women dancing and playing musical instruments, including a Shamisen (right). Date: circa 1906

Festival at Arapli, near Thessaloniki - A group of jolly men dancing and getingt stuck in to some serious drinking. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Bulgarian Traditional Dance
Thessaloniki, Greece - Bulgarian Boys and Girls performing a traditional dance. Date: circa 1907

Palace entertainers - Hue, Vietnam
Palace entertainers and dancers in demonic costume at Hue, the capital city of Thua ThienHue Province of Vietnam. Date: 1907

Gujarat, India - Garba or Circular Gujarat Dance
Garba - a form of dance which originated in Gujarat, India. The name is derived from the Sanskrit term Garbha (womb) and Deep (a small earthenware lamp)

Cambodia - Phnom-Penh - The Kings Young Dancers Date: 1910s

Italian girls in fancy Swimwear
Three Italian girls posing in fancy Swimwear - seen as scandalous (far too revealing!) in some quarters. Date: circa 1905

Algeria - Arabian Dancers Date: circa 1905

The Tiller Girls / The Palace Girls
The Palace Girls - clockwise from top left: Nell Home, Ethel Karri (Ethel Lucy Carrie Thomas), Margery Douglas and Nell Grey

WW2 - Safe Arrival in Paris - GIs enjoying the nightlife
Humorous WW2 era French postcard postcard, bearing the caption " I confirm I have arrived safely..." These two American GIs certainly seem to be enoying their arrival in France

British Columbia, Canada - Tahltan Indian Dancers
Tahltan (also Nahanni) Dancers - a Northern Athabaskan people who live in northern British Columbia around Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, and Iskut. Date: circa 1905

Raising a Toast - Can Can Dancer and smart gent
Can Can Dancer (performing on a chair, somewhat precariously!) and smart gent raising a Toast ! Date: 1905

Arabian Dancers - Port Said, Egypt. Date: circa 1902

German female dance troupe striking a sculptural pose! Date: 1907

Traditional round circle dancing in a Russian village. Date: 1902

Chile - Zamacueca Dance. The Zamacueca is an ancient colonial dance and music that originated in Peru, taking its roots from African, Spanish, and Andean rhythms. Date: circa 1909

Traditional dance - The Women of Megara, Greece. Date: 1920s

Portugal - Saloios Dance. A Saloio is a non-urban (rural, country) person. Originally it was a term applied to someone who lives in the rural areas surrounding Lisbon, the capital of Portugal

Anglo-American Exhibition - 101 Ranch Wild West show
Anglo-American Exhibition held in Shepherds Bush, London. One popular attraction was the 101 Ranch Wild West show (where this Indian Troupe are pictured performing)

High level Dancers - Egyptian Harem - Almeh
Almeh - a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily. Date: circa 1907

Laos - The Kings Orchestra and Dancers
laos - The Kings Orchestra and Dancers at Luang Prabang, the capital of Luang Prabang Province. A UNESCO World Heritage Site

Highland Broadsword Dance - 1st Seaforth Highlanders
The Highland Broadsword Dance by the Pipers of HM 1st Seaforth Highlanders. Date: circa 1908

Traditional Bulgarian Dancing group - all wearing traditional National costume - Thessaloniki, Greece. Date: circa 1904

Birthday of Vietnamese Emperor Khai Dinh - Dancers
Vietnam - Dancers from North Vietnam - art of the large parade during the 40th Birthday Celebrations for Emperor Khai Dinh (1885-1925) on 8th October 1925

Vietnam - 40th Birthday Celebrations for Emperor Khai Dinh
Vietnam - Street Theatre during the 40th Birthday Celebrations for Emperor Khai Dinh (1885-1925) on 8th October 1925. Khai Dinh was very unpopular with the Vietnamese people

Decorative relief carving from The Bayon (Prasat Bayon) - a richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. The subject here are Apsaras or celestial dancers. Date: circa 1920

Mihrimah Sultan Camii, Uskudar, Istanbul, Turkey
Mihrimah Sultan Camii (Mosque), Uskudar, Istanbul, Turkey (designed by Sinan), with inset photographs showing local dancers and a guard of the Imperial Ottoman Bank! Date: circa 1897

Dancing the French Tango
Magazine cover depicting a couple dancing 1926

Dancing the Charleston and Foxtrot
Magazine cover depicting a couple dancing. 1927

Book of Hours of Alonso Fernᮤez of Cordoba
Book of Hours of Alonso Fernᮤ ez of Cordoba (15th c.). The Nativity of Jesus. Flemish art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

CUBA. Havana. Statue of Antonio Gades in Cathedral Square

Japanese Dancers 1930S
Two Japanese dancers with their fans. Date: early 1930s

The Junum-ushtoomee
A group dancing surrounded by musicians and other seated groups of figures. From: Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809. Date: 1813

A girl dancing the Kuharwa
A girl dancing with a small group of people around her some which a playing musical instruments.. From: Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809. Date: 1813

Dancers at Chateau Rouge, Paris
Dancers at the Chateau Rouge, Paris, dancing the polka. It was later made into a jigsaw puzzle -- see 10116544. Date: circa 1860s

Josephine Mclean Prima ballerina of the Marion Morgan dancers, she takes the role of Helen of Troy at the London Palladium Date: 1923

Federal Varieties 40 stage, radio, screen stars : Comedy galore - novelties - dancing girls - 20 musicians : Added attraction Rural frolics : Singers - dancers

Arab Dancers from Tunis, Tunisia
Two beautiful Arab Dancers from Tunis, Tunisia, wearing elaborate metal wrist bracelets and bangles, jewellery, necklaces, shawls, headresses and massive hooped earrings. Date: circa 1910s

The Dodge Twins
Musical stars the Dodge Twins pictured putting in a little dancing practice at the time they were appearing in Oh Kay!, the new musical comedy at His Majestys Theatre in London. Date: 1927

Portraits of Kiralfy family and lead dancers with scenes from productions. Date c1873

Steps Have Been Taken by Laurie Tayler - Growth of the Charl
Humorous cartoon illustrating the growth in popularity of the Charleston dance during the 1920s. The top picture shows a dancefloor crowd looking on with amusement as a single couple engage in

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