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Dancers in front of a monastery, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa
Group of Tibetan dancers, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa, in 1904
The Bayaderes, or Dancing Girls of India Date: 1838
Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi OrderOttoman Empire. Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi Order. The whirling dervishes were founded by Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Monnin
Bali Dancer's SacramentThis painting portrays a side profile view of a kneeling woman wearing a ceremonial costume, with her hands placed together in a sacramental pose, she is a Balinese dancer from Indonesia
FantasiaA colourful tempera painting depicting a jolly festival of clowns and dancers during the night, bright lanterns are hanging all around. Date: circa 1918
Price's Night Lights AdvertisementAn advertisement illustration for Price's Night Lights, featuring a young girl in bed, enjoying watching some female dancers formed in a circle around a candle. Date: circa 1917
Ballet DancersA painting of three dancers, practising ballet in a dance studio, next to a large orange curtain. Date: circa 1917
Pair of DancersA painting of a pair of dancers, male and female, posed elegantly together. She is standing on tiptoes beside the man, who is wearing black and white diamond patterned clothes. Date: circa 1915
The Cake-walk Dance. Date: 1903
Italian Tango Dancers. Date: circa 1910s
Ballet schools in a country housePhotographs of ballet dancers, rehearsing and in poses, in country house settings, including Muriel Harding and Julia Falls. Captioned, Coryphees in a country house: rusticating ballet schools'
Sister's Levey, performers, theatrical studio portraitSisters Levey, performers, theatrical studio portrait of the three women performers in clown costume, with pointed hats, pom-poms, and long gloves
Tilly Losch (1903-1975), also known as Ottilie Herbert, and later Countess of Carnarvon, was an Austrian dancer, actress and painter
Binnie HaleBeatrice Binnie Hale-Monro was an English actress, singer and dancer. Here she is publicising a revue show at the London Hippodrome. Date: circa 1932
Dancer ChitaThe dancer Chita, real name Gladys Hawking, active on the West End cabaret scene. Date: circa 1931
Mimi Jordan had appeared as Miss 1924 at the Palace of Beauty feature, part of the British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley Park. She was now part of the cabaret chorus at the Piccadilly Hotel
Las Tamayos, Dancing TwinsSpanish twins Consuelo and Amparo, known as Las Tamayos, publicising their dancing act at the Empress Rooms in the Kensington Royal Palace Hotel. Date: circa 1925
The City That Never SleepsScenes from the lost 1924 silent film The City That Never Sleeps, showing a prohibitionist nightclub. Date: 1924
Julie Sudo, DancerOriental dancer Julie Sudo, appearing in Carnival Time at the Criterion Restaurant. Date: circa 1925
Playtime at the PiccadillyPerformers in Playtime at the Piccadilly, a cabaret show at the Piccadilly Hotel. The artists pictured are Mimi Jordan, Rene Lorrimore, Evelyn Wrentmor, Amelia Allen
Flora Le Breton (1899-1951) was an English stage and silent film actress who moved to the United States in 1924. Date: circa 1924
The Revue Show Yoicks!The revue show Yoicks! at the Kingsway Theatre, with images of performer Marjorie Gordon (1893-1983). Date: 1924
Music cover, Do That Heebie Jeebie Dance, written and composed by Floyd Du Pont and Teddy Pola, dance creation by Floyd Du Pont Date: 1927
Stella Polaris Dance DeckA painting of the Stella Polaris Dance Deck, showing a room filled with dancers in costumes of wild colours, having the time of their lives. Date: circa 1931
Anton Dolin and Serge LifarBallet dancers Anton Dolin (1904-1983) and Serge Lifar (1905-1986) in Cannes. Date: 1939
Ulla Poulson Skou, Danish ballerinaUlla Poulson Skou (1905-2001) the Danish ballerina and actress. Date: circa 1939
Ram Gopal and Maya RaniIndian dancers Ram Gopal (1912-2003) and Maya Rani, promoting performances at the Aldwych Theatre in London. Date: circa 1939
Maurice and Cordoba, dancersDance partners Maurice and Cordoba, appearing at the Savoy Hotel. Date: circa 1939
Ginger RogersAmerican actress, singer and dancer Ginger Rogers (1911-1995). At this period of her career she was developing her reputation as a nonmusical actor. Date: circa 1939
Fred Astaire golfingFred Astaire (1899-1987) the American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer. His film The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle has recently been released
Lydia Kyasht, ballet dancerLydia Kyasht (1885-1959) was a Russian ballerina and dance teacher. She moved to London in 1908, to be ballerina at the Empire Theatre. Date: 1910
Mlle Ameta Butterfly DancerPerformance artist Mlle Ameta uses costume, lighting effects and newly-invented machinery to perform her butterfly dance in Vienna. Date: circa 1910
Anna Pavlova, Russian prima ballerinaPortrait of Anna Pavlova (1881-1931), prima ballerina assoluta of the St Petersburg Royal Opera House. She was a principal artist with the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes
The Clown - Dancer of the Moulin Rouge, Paris Date: circa 1910s
Poster, Spanish Dancers Date: 1948
Shinto Religious Dance - Japan. Date: circa 1920s
SPAIN. Brihuega. Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Republican troops in the square of Brihuega celebrating the victory in the battle of Guadalajara (1938). SPAIN. Barcelona
Marie Rambert (1888-1982) – ballet dancer & founder of the Rambert Dance Company. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Polish-born Rambert as “cultivated, dynamic, alert, witty
Burmese dancers Date: 1916
A fiddler plays for the dancers by the maypole on the village green Date: early 19th century
Porters Dancing (Danse de hamals) - Constantinople, Turkey. Date: 1910
Marie Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson and Joyce Howard performing in the charity matinee put on by pupils of Madame Vacanis dancing school at the London Hippodrome in aid of the childrens ward of the South
The Smart Set Entertainers - who performed at Tunbridge Wells in 1906. Date: 1906
Saharet - a famous continental dancerSaharet, real name Paulina Clarissa Molony (1878 - 1964), famous Australian-born dancer, who performed many styles in variety theatre in the America
Whirling Dervishes ceremonial dancers, Turkey, c. 1890Whirling Dervishes ceremonial dancers, Turkey, c.1890
Kola Dancers. IndiaVintage 19th century photograph: Kola tribal dancers, Munda-speaking peoples, NE India
c. 1880s Japan - group of dancersc. 1880s Japan - group od dancers